Effect of baiting gillnets in the Canadian Greenland halibut fishery

• Published in: Fisheries Management and Ecology
• Main Authors: Bayse, Shannon M., Grant, Scott M.
• Other Authors: National Research Council Canada
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Baffin Island; Canada; Greenland; Bouvier; Baffin; Somniosus microcephalus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/fme.12434; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Ffme.12434; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/fme.12434; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/fme.12434

Abstract Catch rates were compared between gillnets with and without bait in the Greenland halibut Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Walbaum) fishery off Baffin Island, Canada. Two different types of baiting techniques were compared: bait bags where squid were placed into 2‐mm mesh bags, and tied bait w...