Discards of commercial fish species in the Gulf of Maine groundfish and shrimp fisheries

• Main Author: Langan, Richard
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository 1992
• Subjects: Biology; Zoology; Agriculture; Fisheries and Aquaculture; Hake; northern shrimp
• Online Access: https://scholars.unh.edu/dissertation/1679; https://scholars.unh.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2678&context=dissertation

A three part analysis of discarding of commercial fish species in the Gulf of Maine trawl fisheries was conducted from 1983 through 1992. Abstracts for each part of the dissertation are: Part 1. The objectives of the research were to quantify commercial trawler discards of American plaice, witch flo...