FIELD: commercial fishery, applicable in development of fish-searching equipment. SUBSTANCE: numerical values of fishery efficiency of the complex of fish-searching equipment is determined with the use of data bases by means of the information-analytical system by the method of simulation of its operation, in the process of which various scenarios of fishery conditions are assigned. EFFECT: enhanced truth of forecast estimation of efficiency of ship sonar equipment for preset fishery conditions taking into account the ship type and properties of fishery objects. 9 cl, 1 dwg, 2 tbl
