Quantifying the Escape Mortality of Trawl Caught Antarctic Krill (Euphausia superba)

• Main Authors: Bjørn A Krafft, Ludvig A Krag, Arill Engås, Sigve Nordrum, Inge Bruheim, Bent Herrmann
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Antarctic; Meier; Antarc*; Antarctic Krill; Euphausia superba
• Online Access: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0162311; https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0162311&type=printable

Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) is an abundant fishery resource, the harvest levels of which are expected to increase. However, many of the length classes of krill can escape through commonly used commercial trawl mesh sizes. A vital component of the overall management of a fishery is to estimat...