Definition of electrofish in English:
electrofish
verbɪˈlɛktrəʊfɪʃəˌlektrəˌfiSH
[with object]Fish (a stretch of water) using electrocution or a weak electric field.
electrofishing and netting showed a number of small bass in different sections of the lake
Example sentencesExamples
- Eighteen streams were electrofished at least once over the course of the study to determine fish community composition and catch-per-unit-effort (fish per minute).
- During the 1998-1999 surveys, fishes were collected using baited minnow traps, trap nets, gill nets, backpack electrofishing units, seines, and angling to avoid size- and species-selectivity.
- Fish taken by electrofishing and angling were sampled during the prespawning (spring, summer) and spawning seasons in 1997.
- All fish specimens were obtained by electrofishing.
- One of the options state and federal wildlife officials are throwing around (and have tried in the past) is electrofishing.
- Each site was electrofished in a systematic fashion beginning at the downstream margin of the section and continuing upstream to the head in the section.
- ‘If only we had some electrofishing gear ‘I said.’
- Areas upstream and downstream of the 400-m section were searched for marked fish with equal electrofishing effort (two passes with block nets).
- Bitterlings were collected from the same site as the mussels by electrofishing in mid-April 1999 and kept indoors in large aquaria at the university.
- After all enclosures were positioned, they were electrofished using a backpack electroshocker to attempt to remove any fish that may not have escaped during positioning.
- All fish receptive to capture by two electrofishing passes within each of six sites were sampled.
- The recent trend towards assessing fish assemblage structure has been attributed to the advent of modern pulsed-DC backpack electrofishing gear and the availability of effective multi-metric indices.
- Boat electrofishing was also conducted at night in each major littoral habitat in a subset of 30 lakes during 1991 and 1992.
- The section electrofished should be of a minimum length.