Assessment of the benthic impacts of raised groundgear for the Eastern Bering Sea pollock fishery, 2014

• Main Authors: Susie Zagorski, Carwyn Hammond
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace 2013
• Subjects: Ellisella elongata; sea whip, long sea whip; North Pacific Research Board; fishing gear; benthic habitat; footrope; seafloor clearance; swept area; trawl gear modifications; pelagic trawl gear; Alaska Bering Sea; Halipteris willemoesi; Sea whips; Bering Sea; Pacific; Alaska
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k44y_2020_6_12_181919

This project addresses the seabed contact and benthic habitat impact aspects of several trawl groundgear configurations. Recent Alaska Fisheries Science Center (AFSC) and industry cooperative work showed that raising trawl groundgear (sweeps and footrope) above the seabed via widely-spaced bobbins r...