New approaches to the reduction of non-target mortality in beam trawling

Summary

This paper presents experiments with modified beam trawls aimed at reducing discard rates and direct mortality of benthic in-fauna and epi-fauna without affecting the level of landings.

Authors

• B.van Marlen,
• M.J.N. Bergman,
• S.Groenewold,
• M. Fonds

Publication date

13 October 2004

Category

• Technical Report
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