TY - JOUR AU - Lees, Kirsty J. AU - Mill, Aileen C. AU - Skerritt, Daniel J. AU - Robertson, Peter A. AU - Fitzsimmons, Clare PY - 2018 DA - 2018/06/08 TI - Movement patterns of a commercially important, free-ranging marine invertebrate in the vicinity of a bait source JO - Animal Biotelemetry SP - 8 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Catch per unit effort is a cost-effective index of abundance and fishing effort, and an integral part of many fisheries stock assessments. Trap fisheries data are often generated using non-standardised methodology and the information to improve the accuracy of estimates is not always available due to current ecological knowledge gaps. Despite its economic importance, the European lobster Homarus gammarus has been relatively understudied compared to the closely related H. americanus. Previous studies investigating behaviour of Homarus spp. in relation to bait sources have been undertaken in aquariums or mesocosms rather than on free-ranging lobsters in the field. This study uses fine-scale acoustic telemetry data, and a null model approach to investigate free-ranging H. gammarus behaviour and movement in relation to baited commercial traps. SN - 2050-3385 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-018-0152-4 DO - 10.1186/s40317-018-0152-4 ID - Lees2018 ER -