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The running speed and track of the targets usually result in a Doppler shift, which poses significant challenges for recognizing targets with different Doppler frequencies. This paper proposes deep learning with a channel attention mechanism approach for underwater acoustic recognition. It is based on three crucial designs. Feature structures can obtain high-dimensional underwater acoustic data. The feature extraction model is the most important. First, we develop a ResNet to extract the deep abstraction spectral features of the targets. Then, the channel attention mechanism is introduced in the camResNet to enhance the energy of stable spectral features of residual convolution. This is conducive to subtly represent the inherent characteristics of the targets. Moreover, a feature classification approach based on one-dimensional convolution is applied to recognize targets. We evaluate our approach on challenging data containing four kinds of underwater acoustic targets with different working conditions. Our experiments show that the proposed approach achieves the best recognition accuracy (98.2%) compared with the other approaches. 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