Effect of the Nordmøre grid bar spacing on size selectivity, catch efficiency and bycatch of the Barents Sea Northern shrimp fishery

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Larsen, Roger B., Herrmann, Bent, Sistiaga, Manu, Brinkhof, Jesse, Cerbule, Kristine, Grimaldo Vela, Eduardo Enrique, Lomeli, Mark JM
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PLOS 2022
• Subjects: Barents Sea; Nordmøre; Gadus morhua; northern shrimp; Pandalus borealis
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10037/27959; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277788

The introduction of the Nordmøre grid in shrimp trawls has reduced the bycatch of non-target species. In the Norwegian Northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) fishery, the mandatory selective gear consists of a Nordmøre grid with 19 mm bar spacing combined with a 35 mm mesh size diamond mesh codend. How...