Quantification of bell-shaped size selectivity in shrimp trawl fisheries using square mesh panels and a sorting cone after a Nordmøre grid.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Manu Sistiaga, Bent Herrmann, Roger Bertrand Larsen, Jesse Brinkhof
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Barents Sea; Nordmøre; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222391; https://doaj.org/article/0bbaf29dbd2f4b019cb2afc52ae3fd05

Shrimp trawlers in the Barents Sea use a Nordmøre sorting grid ahead of a small-mesh codend to avoid bycatch while catching shrimps efficiently. However, small fish can still pass through the grid to enter the codend, which increases their risk of being retained. In this study, we quantified the sel...