Quantifying causes of discard variability: An indispensable assistance to discard estimation and a paramount need for policy measures

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1719-1725

  Depestele, Jochen ^a,b   Vandemaele, Sofie ^a,c   Vanhee, Willy ^a   Polet, Hans ^a   Torreele, Els ^a   Leirs, Herwig ^c   Vincx, Magda ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR AGRICULTURAL AND FISHERIES RESEARCH ILVO   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

beam trawl; discards; fishery management; highgrading; market price; minimum landing size; North Sea; quota

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CATCH COMPOSITION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEAR SELECTIVITY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; POLICY MAKING; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; SAMPLING; TRAWLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

PLEURONECTES;

EID: 80051989228     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr030     Document Type: Article

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