Baited Video (BRUVS)

Baited Remote Underwater Video Stations are used to survey fish sizes,abundance and diversity, complementing quantitative transect methods by diving, ROV and AUV. The BRUVS use method is a standardised method with the advantages of: sampling at greater depth and over greater time periods than diver surveys; efficient survey of low density populations, particularly predator and scavenger species; sampling species that are diver-shy; and precise and accurate measurement of fish sizes. The BRUVS systems use high definition digital video cameras recording to hard drive.