Quantifying and reducing river herring and American shad bycatch in the U.S. northwest-Atlantic herring and mackerel fisheries ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Mid-water trawling, the primary method of harvesting Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Atlantic mackerel (Scomber Scombrus) in the U.S., can capture hundreds of tons of fishes in a single tow. Vessels using this fishing gear are...
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ASC 2012 - Theme session C
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.24973851 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/Quantifying_and_reducing_river_herring_and_American_shad_bycatch_in_the_U_S_northwest-Atlantic_herring_and_mackerel_fisheries/24973851 |
| Summary: | No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.Mid-water trawling, the primary method of harvesting Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) and Atlantic mackerel (Scomber Scombrus) in the U.S., can capture hundreds of tons of fishes in a single tow. Vessels using this fishing gear are efficient but have the potential to catch large amounts of non-target species that are difficult to quantify. Decreases in the number of anadromous river herring (Alosa pseudoharengus,, A. aestivalis) and American shad (A. sapidissima) returning to spawn has led to speculation that these fishes are incidentally caught in large numbers by mid-water trawl vessels. Although the role of bycatch in the decline of river herring and American shad is unclear, mid-water and bottom trawl Atlantic herring and mackerel fishermen collaborated with the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology (SMAST) and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries (DMF) to quantify and minimize bycatch. ... |
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