Though trawling contributes significantly to landings in India, issues like bycatch which
comprises of juveniles of commercially important species and impacts to the sea bottom are …

Most Mediterranean fish and crustaceans' stocks are overexploited, but they could increase
if fishing intensity would be reduced for only a few years. Today exploited stocks are …

Fisheries discards are an issue of general management and societal concern. This study
presents the first analysis and characterization of discards composition from Iberian trawl …

Size selectivity of the 40 mm nominal polyethylene (PE) square mesh codend and the 44
mm nominal polyamide (PA) diamond mesh codend were determined under commercial …

Crustaceans of the genus Metanephrops are of great commercial value in some tropical and
subtropical regions. With the potential development of a new deep lobster fishery in the …

Deep-water shrimps remain some of the less understood decapod crustacean taxa, despite
the high commercial and ecological importance. The lack of knowledge on adults and larval …

The aim of this study was to compare selectivity results of currently used 44 mm nominal
polyamide (PA) diamond mesh‐and alternatively suggested 40 mm nominal polyethylene …

The aim of the study was to analyse the size, growth and size at maturity of Nephrops
norvegicus in two areas off the Portuguese coast. Samples were collected between …

The existence of a wide bed of the crinoid Leptometra celtica (M'Andrew and Barrett 1857),
at approximately 500 m depth, off the Portuguese south coast is inferred from remotely …

Survival estimates were obtained for the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, retained and
esca** from a standard 70 mm mesh size diamond and a modified 55 mm square mesh …