Selectivity and escape percentages during three phases of the towing process for codends fitted with different selection systems

Fisheries Research

Volumn 95, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 198-205

  Grimaldo, E ^a   Larsen, R B ^a   Sistiaga, M ^a   Madsen, N ^b   Breen, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

By catch; Cod; Diamond meshes; Escape windows; Fish escape; Haddock; MultiSampler; Partitioned selectivity; Sorting grids; Trawl codend

Indexed keywords

GADUS MORHUA; MELANOGRAMMUS; MELANOGRAMMUS AEGLEFINUS;

EID: 56949094634     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2008.08.019     Document Type: Article

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