Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) produce high frequency rasp sounds with frequency modulation
Date
2020
Authors
Riera, Amalis
Rountree, Rodney A.
Agagnier, Lucas
Juanes, Francis
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Publisher
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Abstract
Sablefish sounds, named rasps, were recorded at two captive facilities in British Columbia and Washington State. Rasps consisted of highly variable broadband trains of 2 to 336 ticks that lasted between 74 and 10 500 ms. The 260 rasps that were measured contained frequencies between 344 and 34 000 Hz with an average peak frequency of 3409 Hz. The frequency structure of ticks within rasps was highly variable and included both positive and negative trends. This finding makes sablefish one of the few deep-sea fish for which sounds have been validated and described. The documentation of sablefish sounds will enable the use of passive acoustic monitoring methods in fisheries and ecological studies of this commercially important deep-sea fish.
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Keywords
Sablefish, Anoplopoma fimbria, bioacoustics, fish sounds, fish behavior, soniferous fish, Passive acoustic monitoring, deep-sea fish
Citation
Riera, A., Rountree, R. A., Agagnier, L., & Juanes, F. (2020). Sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria) produce high frequency rasp sounds with frequency modulation. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(4), 2295-2301. https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001071.