Modelling trawling discards of the Alboran fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea

• Published in: Regional Studies in Marine Science
• Main Authors: Carbonell, Ana, García, T., González-Aguilar, María, Álvarez-Berastegui, Diego, Mallol, Sandra, De La Serna, J. M., Bultó-Estébanez, Cristina, Bellido-Millán, José María, Barcala-Bellod, Elena, Baro, Jorge
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier BV 2018
• Subjects: Discards; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares; Pesquerías; Otter-trawl fisheries; Fishery conservation; Operational oceanography; NAO; Gam; Hake; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/323082; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2017.11.010

The ecosystem processes underlying the discard rates of the demersal otter-trawl fishery in the Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean are investigated. We evaluate whether environmental and climatic variability, measured from operational oceanographic data, allow assessment of discarded species abundan...