The Use Of Composite Mesh Codends To Reduce Bycatch And Discard In North Atlantic Fisheries ...
No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The at-sea discarding of fish harvested from the ocean and its associated mortalities have been recognized and noted by fisheries scientists as inherent problems in the management of world fisheries for many years. Such practices con...
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ASC 2003 - Z - Theme session
2024
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.17895/ices.pub.25348663.v1 https://ices-library.figshare.com/articles/conference_contribution/The_Use_Of_Composite_Mesh_Codends_To_Reduce_Bycatch_And_Discard_In_North_Atlantic_Fisheries/25348663/1 |
| Summary: | No abstracts are to be cited without prior reference to the author.The at-sea discarding of fish harvested from the ocean and its associated mortalities have been recognized and noted by fisheries scientists as inherent problems in the management of world fisheries for many years. Such practices constitute not only waste of a valuable resource but perhaps more importantly help contribute to observed decline in many of the world s marine fisheries. However, despite considerable research efforts into technical measures to mitigate bycatch and discard, success has in general been limited. This may inpart reflect the ad hoc, and hence non-directed, nature of many such research programs but lack of implementation of novel bycatch reduction devices may also reflect the conservative nature of fisheries managers. Here we present a case study where technical measures have been developed in the Northwest Atlantic to reduce inadvertent capture of cod in bottom trawl fisheries. This measure has been shown to effectively ... |
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