A review of bycatch reduction in demersal fish trawls

SJ Kennelly, MK Broadhurst - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 2021 - Springer
Otter trawling for fish is one of the world's most productive yet problematic fishing methods
due to its bycatch and discards; issues that have been mitigated in some fisheries by …

Co-existence in practice: a collaborative study of the effects of the Westermost Rough offshore wind development on the size distribution and catch rates of a …

M Roach, A Revill, MJ Johnson - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The global expansion of offshore windfarms (OWF), whilst seen as a tool to combat climate
change, can often be of concern to fishing communities already challenged by spatial …

Catch comparison of flatfish pulse trawls and a tickler chain beam trawl

B Van Marlen, JAM Wiegerinck, E van Os-Koomen… - Fisheries …, 2014 - Elsevier
Pulse trawling is used to a growing extent in the Dutch flatfish beam trawl fleet, and deemed
as a promising alternative to tickler chain beam trawling. A comparative fishing experiment …

Reducing sea turtle bycatch in the Mediterranean mixed demersal fisheries

A Lucchetti, G Bargione, A Petetta… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is the most common sea turtle in the Mediterranean, where
incidental catches due to fishing activities are considered the main threat to its conservation …

[BOOK][B] Behavior of marine fishes: capture processes and conservation challenges

P He - 2011 - books.google.com
BEHAVIOR OF MARINE FISHES BEHAVIOR OF MARINE FISHES: Capture Processes and
Conservation Challenges Understanding fish behavior in relation to capture processes in …

A new concept for bycatch reduction in small-scale accordion-shaped trap fisheries of the Yellow Sea, China

M Yu, C Liu, L Sun, L Zhang, Y Tang - Fisheries Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The bycatch issue is a major concern in small-scale accordion-shaped trap fisheries in the
Yellow Sea of China because of the poor species and size selectivity of fishing gear and the …

Inferring fish escape behaviour in trawls based on catch comparison data: model development and evaluation based on data from Skagerrak, Denmark

LA Krag, B Herrmann, JD Karlsen - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
During the fishing process, fish react to a trawl with a series of behaviours that often are
species and size specific. Thus, a thorough understanding of fish behaviour in relation to …

[HTML][HTML] How is artificial lighting affecting the catches in deep water rose shrimp trawl fishery of the Central Mediterranean Sea?

ML Geraci, F Colloca, F Di Maio, F Falsone… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2021 - Elsevier
The effect of artificial lights mounted on the headrope trawl net on the catch of deep water
rose shrimp (Parapenaeus longirostris), European hake (Merluccius merluccius), and …

Introducing selfisher: open source software for statistical analyses of fishing gear selectivity

ME Brooks, V Melli, E Savina, J Santos… - Canadian Journal of …, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
There is a need to improve fishing methods to select for certain sizes and species while
excluding others. Experiments are conducted to quantify selectivity of fishing gears and how …

[PDF][PDF] Discard avoidance by improving fishing gear selectivity: Hel** the fishing industry help itself

FG O'Neill, J Feekings, RJ Fryer… - … : reducing discards in …, 2019 - library.oapen.org
To address the challenges of the Landing Obligation, fishers need to be able to adjust the
selective performance of each fishing operation in response to what they observe on the …