Numerical optimisation of trawls design to improve their energy efficiency

Fisheries Research

Volumn 98, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 40-50

  Priour, Daniel ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Drag; Fishing gears; Fuel consumption; Modelling; Optimisation; Swept area; Swept width; Trawl

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349165474     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2009.03.015     Document Type: Article

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