Sensor Applications to Study the Biology of Fish Movement

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to submit your manuscript associated with the research topic ‘Sensor Applications to Study the Biology of Fish Movement’ to this Special Issue of Biology. The underwater world is still a mysterious one. The fishes that inhabit this world show remarkable swimming performances as exemplified by complex maneuvering in coastal zones, the fast sprints of predators and long-distance migrations. Fishes also need to be resilient in order to cope with a changing world or in an aquaculture environment. The applications of sensor technology are receiving increasing attention in the research on fishes in experimental settings, field monitoring and aquaculture. Sensors are used to gain insight into the physiological performance of fishes, their movement and activity patterns, and have major potential to fill gaps in our fundamental knowledge on fish movement and contribute to animal welfare and precision farming.

This Special Issue aims to collect articles that show sensor applications to study fish movement, on the use of available sensor tags and loggers in swimming fish and on the development of new ones. This includes telemetric approaches and sensor applications in or on the fish that inform us about their swimming physiology.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: fish physiology, biomechanics, ecology and behavioral biology, fisheries and aquaculture, but also sensor engineering and validation.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Arjan P. Palstra
Dr. Pablo Arechavala-Lopez
Dr. Neill A. Herbert
Guest Editors

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