Sentence examples for bottom fisheries from inspiring English sources

Despite the extent of this activity the total global catch from bottom fisheries - longliners, gillnetters and bottom trawlers - contributed only 0.31% to the total marine capture during 2006 [47].

Mortalities due to interactions between loggerhead (Caretta caretta) turtles and commercial bottom trawl fisheries impede the recovery of loggerhead populations worldwide.

It is often caught incidentally by bottom trawl fisheries off South Africa, and may also be impacted by pollution from coastal development.

Although the peppered maskray is a frequent bycatch of bottom trawl fisheries, it is still common and significant portions of its population appear to lie within unfished waters.

This study examined a flexible sorting grid excluder designed to reduce Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) bycatch in the US west coast groundfish bottom trawl fishery.

For each site, we evaluated the model for estimating discards from bottom trawl fishery associated with European minimum conservation reference size regulations, as well as discards caused by the low economic value of catches.

A 10-year study in the Aegean Sea, divided into two sub-periods (1995 2000; 2003–2006) and based on bottom trawl fishery data, retroactively identified a total of 30 species making up 14.3% of the total catch in weight and 2.2% in number.

We demonstrated the capability of a flexible sorting grid excluder to reduce Pacific halibut bycatch in the groundfish bottom trawl fishery while retaining a relatively high proportion of the targeted species.

In the context of the landing obligation set by the new Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), Norway lobster Nephrops norvegicus was identified as a species likely to have high survival rate when discarded in the bottom trawl fishery of the Bay of Biscay.

The present work analyzed different possibilities to mitigate the impact of gears on the seabed and to increase the efficiency of the bottom trawl fishery of the Western Mediterranean.

The aim of this study was to determine if catch efficiency for cod (Gadus morhua L). in the Barents Sea bottom trawl fishery could be improved by replacing the conventional rockhopper ground gear with a new type of ground gear called semicircular spreading gear (SCSG).