Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts
Abstract To reduce the practice of discarding commercially fished organisms, several measures such as a discard ban and extra allowances on top of landings quotas (“catch quota”) have been proposed by the European Commission. However, for their development and successful implementation, an understan...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/icesjms/fst030 2024-09-09T19:29:50+00:00 Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts Uhlmann, Sebastian S. van Helmond, Aloysius T. M. Kemp Stefánsdóttir, Elísabet Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Haralabous, John Bellido, Jose Maria Carbonell, A. Catchpole, Tom Damalas, Dimitrios Fauconnet, Laurence Feekings, Jordan Garcia, Teresa Madsen, Niels Mallold, Sandra Margeirsson, Sveinn Palialexis, Andreas Readdy, Lisa Valeiras, Julio Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki Rochet, Marie-Joëlle 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst030 http://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article-pdf/71/5/1235/29148268/fst030.pdf en eng Oxford University Press (OUP) ICES Journal of Marine Science volume 71, issue 5, page 1235-1245 ISSN 1095-9289 1054-3139 journal-article 2013 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst030 2024-08-05T04:28:34Z Abstract To reduce the practice of discarding commercially fished organisms, several measures such as a discard ban and extra allowances on top of landings quotas (“catch quota”) have been proposed by the European Commission. However, for their development and successful implementation, an understanding of discard patterns on a European scale is needed. In this study, we present an inter-national synthesis of discard data collected on board commercial, towed-gear equipped vessels operating under six different national flags spanning from the Baltic to the Mediterranean Seas mainly between 2003 and 2008. We considered discarded species of commercial value such as Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), European hake (Merluccius merluccius), and European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa). Comparisons of discard per unit effort rates expressed as numbers per hour of fishing revealed that in the Mediterranean Sea minimum size-regulated species such as hake are generally discarded in much lower numbers than elsewhere. For most species examined, variability in discard rates across regions was greater than across fisheries, suggesting that a region-by-region approach to discard reduction would be more relevant. The high uncertainty in discard rate estimates suggests that current sampling regimes should be either expanded or complemented by other data sources, if they are to be used for setting catch quotas. Article in Journal/Newspaper atlantic cod Gadus morhua Oxford University Press Hake ENVELOPE(15.612,15.612,66.797,66.797) ICES Journal of Marine Science 71 5 1235 1245 |
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Abstract To reduce the practice of discarding commercially fished organisms, several measures such as a discard ban and extra allowances on top of landings quotas (“catch quota”) have been proposed by the European Commission. However, for their development and successful implementation, an understanding of discard patterns on a European scale is needed. In this study, we present an inter-national synthesis of discard data collected on board commercial, towed-gear equipped vessels operating under six different national flags spanning from the Baltic to the Mediterranean Seas mainly between 2003 and 2008. We considered discarded species of commercial value such as Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus), European hake (Merluccius merluccius), and European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa). Comparisons of discard per unit effort rates expressed as numbers per hour of fishing revealed that in the Mediterranean Sea minimum size-regulated species such as hake are generally discarded in much lower numbers than elsewhere. For most species examined, variability in discard rates across regions was greater than across fisheries, suggesting that a region-by-region approach to discard reduction would be more relevant. The high uncertainty in discard rate estimates suggests that current sampling regimes should be either expanded or complemented by other data sources, if they are to be used for setting catch quotas. |
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Uhlmann, Sebastian S. van Helmond, Aloysius T. M. Kemp Stefánsdóttir, Elísabet Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Haralabous, John Bellido, Jose Maria Carbonell, A. Catchpole, Tom Damalas, Dimitrios Fauconnet, Laurence Feekings, Jordan Garcia, Teresa Madsen, Niels Mallold, Sandra Margeirsson, Sveinn Palialexis, Andreas Readdy, Lisa Valeiras, Julio Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki Rochet, Marie-Joëlle |
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Uhlmann, Sebastian S. van Helmond, Aloysius T. M. Kemp Stefánsdóttir, Elísabet Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Haralabous, John Bellido, Jose Maria Carbonell, A. Catchpole, Tom Damalas, Dimitrios Fauconnet, Laurence Feekings, Jordan Garcia, Teresa Madsen, Niels Mallold, Sandra Margeirsson, Sveinn Palialexis, Andreas Readdy, Lisa Valeiras, Julio Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki Rochet, Marie-Joëlle Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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Uhlmann, Sebastian S. van Helmond, Aloysius T. M. Kemp Stefánsdóttir, Elísabet Sigurðardóttir, Sigríður Haralabous, John Bellido, Jose Maria Carbonell, A. Catchpole, Tom Damalas, Dimitrios Fauconnet, Laurence Feekings, Jordan Garcia, Teresa Madsen, Niels Mallold, Sandra Margeirsson, Sveinn Palialexis, Andreas Readdy, Lisa Valeiras, Julio Vassilopoulou, Vassiliki Rochet, Marie-Joëlle |
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Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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Discarded fish in European waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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discarded fish in european waters: general patterns and contrasts |
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Oxford University Press (OUP) |
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