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Fishing has many types of impacts on the marine environment. Degradation of seafloor habitats by trawling has been widely studied, along with bycatch mortality, and ghost fishing by traps.
B. Stevens
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Technological creep masks continued decline in a lobster (Homarus gammarus) fishery over a century
Fishery-dependent data are frequently used to inform management decisions. However, inferences about stock development based on commercial data such as Catch-Per-Unit-Effort (CPUE) can be severely biased due to a phenomenon known as technological creep ...
Alf Ring Kleiven +5 more
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Self-localization of buoyless fishing gear and other objects on the sea floor [PDF]
End lines used in commercial trap/pot fishing pose a significant entanglement risk to whales, sea turtles, and sharks. Removal of these ropes for buoyless fishing is being considered by the United States and Canadian governments, but a method to ...
Mark F. Baumgartner, Jim Partan
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An evolution of pontoon traps for cod fishing (Gadus morhua) in the southern Baltic Sea
With increasing seal populations in the Baltic Sea comes growing interaction between seals and coastal fisheries. The impact of seals, mainly grey seal (Halichoerus grypus), on fisheries can be reduced by implementing of seal-safe fishing gear, which ...
Peter Ljungberg +2 more
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The low impact of fish traps on the seabed makes it an eco-friendly fishing technique.
Besides understanding the effects of fishing on harvested fish stocks, effects on non-target species, habitats and seafloor integrity also need to be considered.
Dorothée Kopp +5 more
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Fishing cat populations appear to have declined significantly in recent years due to the loss and fragmentation of inland and coastal wetland habitats.
Kitipat Phosri +5 more
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The catches and bycatches from stow and trap nets and seines used by commercial fishers in Lake Illawarra, southeastern Australia, were assessed via an observer-based sampling program during the 1999/2000 fishing season.
CHARLES A. GRAY +2 more
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The effect of escape gaps of cylinder folding traps on fish catch at the coastal waters of Tuban Regency [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of the escape gap of cylinder folding trap on catch per unit effort (CPUE), trap rate, composition, and size of fish caught in the coastal waters of Tuban Regency.
Adyatama Farrel Nafis +8 more
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This study was aimed to determine the effects of different bait types on the efficiency of fyke-nets and traps in catching narrow-clawed crayfish (Pontastacus leptodactylus (Eschscholtz, 1823)). The study was carried out in Atikhisar reservoir, Çanakkale,
Tekin DEMİRKIRAN, Uğur ÖZEKİNCİ
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Lobster trap debris in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: distribution, abundance, density, and patterns of accumulation [PDF]
The fishery for spiny lobster Panulirus argus in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary is well chronicled, but little information is available on the prevalence of lost or abandoned lobster traps.
Lewis, Cynthia +2 more
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