Shrimp trap selectivity in a Mediterranean small-scale-fishery

An abstract characterisation of reduction operators Intuitively a reduction operation, in the sense intended in the present paper, is an operation that can be applied to inter-

One device was a combined fish bycatch excluder and shrimp size selector (FASS), and the other was designed to reduce catch of small sized shrimp and small sized fish

From surveillance and controls of the commercial shrimp fishery conducted by the Directorate of Fishery, data on bycatch are available (Table .6). A gain of

• continue to promote, at NAFO, a management scheme for the Flemish Cap shrimp fishery which is effective at controlling fishing effort. • continue to promote, with Greenland,

• Calculations based on average cod, haddock and shrimp prices 2004 and using varying future catch expectancies from ”saved” juveniles, indicates following by-catch criteria:. •

Trials made in the Belgium brown shrimp fishery using the traditional SP design with a nominal mesh size of 70 mm and the outlet codend with a mesh size of 80 mm (Polet et al., 2004)

Title: Size selection of Nephrops norvegicus (L.) in commercial creel fishery in the Mediterranean Sea.. Article Type:

Considering the issues mentioned above, the present study in- vestigated the performance of a gear setup comprising a flexigrid and legal diamond mesh codend in order to address