using a 40 mm square mesh codend
to reduce discards in the eastern Mediterranean
Target species:
Red mullet, brush tooth lizardfish, common pandora, goldband goat fish, picarel, axillary sea bream, speckled shrimp, green tiger prawn and other marketable fish and crustaceans
Area, Vessel
46 covered codend hauls were carried out onboard commercial trawler ‘Azim’ (18 m LOA, 350 HP) in Mersin Bay in 2011.
Red mullet, brush tooth lizardfish, common pandora, goldband goat fish, picarel, axillary sea bream, speckled shrimp, green tiger prawn and other marketable fish and crustaceans
Area, Vessel
46 covered codend hauls were carried out onboard commercial trawler ‘Azim’ (18 m LOA, 350 HP) in Mersin Bay in 2011.
Gear type:
demersal trawl
Gear modification
The catching performance of a hand made 44 mm diamond mesh commercial codend was compared with that of machine woven 40 mm square mesh codend.
demersal trawl
Gear modification
The catching performance of a hand made 44 mm diamond mesh commercial codend was compared with that of machine woven 40 mm square mesh codend.
Results:
The square mesh codend reduced the numbers of juveniles caught but there were also significant losses of marketable brushtooth lizard fish and goldband goat fish.
The square mesh codend reduced the numbers of juveniles caught but there were also significant losses of marketable brushtooth lizard fish and goldband goat fish.
Further information:
Hüseyin Özbilgin (ozbilginh@gmail.com) Project: TUBITAK/109O684 Mersin University, Fisheries Faculty, Mersin, Turkey.
Hüseyin Özbilgin (ozbilginh@gmail.com) Project: TUBITAK/109O684 Mersin University, Fisheries Faculty, Mersin, Turkey.
Citation :
Ozbilgin, H.
, 2017.
using a 40 mm square mesh codend
. In O’Neill, F.G. and Mutch, K. (Eds): Selectivity in Trawl Fishing Gears. Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Vol 8 No 1.