Shrimp Separator Trawl Experiments: Gulf of Maine Shrimp Fishery

• Main Authors: Kenney, J F, Blott, A J, DeAlteris, J
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1990
• Subjects: design; Gulf of Maine; horizontal; juvenile; mesh; mortality; Nordmore Grate; shrimp; structures; Hake; Howell; North Atlantic; northern shrimp
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fishpassage_unpublished_works/128

The discard of finfish bycatch in the Gulf of Maine, northern shrimp trawl fishery is considered a serious problem. The species specific discard rate varied from 17% for winter flounder to 95% for silver hake in fifty tows made by commercial trawlers during the period 1985-1989 (Howell and Langan, 1...