Effect of three different codend designs on the size selectivity of juvenile cod in the Barents Sea shrimp trawl fishery

• Published in: Fisheries Research
• Main Authors: Herrmann, Bent, Sistiaga, Manu Berrondo, Larsen, Roger B., Brinkhof, Jesse
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Shrimp fishery; Bycatch; Cod; Size selectivity; Nordmøre grid; Codend design; Barents Sea; Nordmøre; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2607141; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2019.105337

Shrimp trawlers often use a Nordmøre sorting grid ahead of a small mesh codend to avoid bycatch of juvenile fish while allowing shrimps to be efficiently caught. However, small fish can pass through the grid to enter the codend and risk being retained. The risk of retention for fish of different siz...