Trawling is one of the most important fish capture techniques in use today (Fig. 10.1). It
accounts for approximately 22% of the world's fish production and is the principal technique …

Abstract Australia's South East Fishery (SEF) is a complex multi-species, multi-gear fishery
which operates over a large area from shallow coastal waters to depths of over 1000 m. As …

Despite research and public scrutiny over recent decades, discarding continues to be an
issue for trawl fisheries. Previous research demonstrates that environmental, biological …

Abstract Walmsley, SA, Leslie, RW, and Sauer, WHH 2007. Managing South Africa's trawl
bycatch.–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 405–412. Over the past few decades, it has …

Fifty years ago, when the oceans' stocks of fish were thought to be inexhaustible, there were
no so-called 'by-catches'. Marine scientists studying fisheries were mostly limited to the …

By‐catch and (or) discards in fisheries have been considered a serious problem and have
been unanimously criticized by politicians, environmental groups, the public and scientists …

In many countries, policies regarding reduction of unwanted catch and discards are crafted
in response to concerns regarding accountability, conservation, and waste as well as …

AND UNOBSERVED FISHING MORTALITY IN MARINE FISHERIES; AN UPDATE Page 1
DISCARDING PRACTICES AND UNOBSERVED FISHING MORTALITY IN MARINE …

incidental mammal catch and the composition of the fish catch were studied in pelagic trawl
fisheries in the north-east atlantic. several seasonal european fisheries were investigated …

Bycatch in marine capture fisheries is the retained catch of nontargeted but commercially
viable species (referred to as “incidental catch”) plus all discards (Food and Agriculture …