Potential use of a Nordmøre grid for by-catch reduction in a Portuguese bottom-trawl multispecies fishery

Fisheries Research

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 49-66

  Fonseca, Paulo ^a   Campos, Aida ^a   Mendes, Beatriz ^a   Larsen, Roger B ^b  

^a INSTITUTO PORTUGUÊS DO MAR E DA ATMOSFERA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

By catch reduction; Macroramphosus scolopax; Merluccius merluccius; Micromesistius poutassou; Portuguese continental waters; Scomber scombrus; Scyliorhinus canicula; Sorting grids; Trachurus trachurus; Trawl selectivity; Trisopterus luscus

Indexed keywords

BYCATCH;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE; WORLD;

CEPHALOPODA; EQUUS CABALLUS; MACRORAMPHOSUS SCOLOPAX; MERLANGIUS MERLANGUS; MERLUCCIUS MERLUCCIUS; MICROMESISTIUS POUTASSOU; REXEA SOLANDRI; SCOLOPAX; SCOMBER SCOMBRUS; SCYLIORHINUS CANICULA; SQUALUS ACANTHIAS; TRACHURUS TRACHURUS; TRISOPTERUS LUSCUS;

EID: 17444405650     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2005.01.005     Document Type: Article

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