Since the beginning of the 21st century, electronic monitoring (EM) has emerged as a cost‐
efficient supplement to existing catch monitoring programmes in fisheries. An EM system …

In contrast to the vast majority of European maritime territories, the Azores is an isolated
oceanic archipelago in the North East Atlantic characterised by small-scale hooks-and-lines …

To reduce the practice of discarding commercially fished organisms, several measures such
as a discard ban and extra allowances on top of landings quotas (“catch quota”) have been …

Few studies have examined discard survival in beam trawl fisheries, especially in 4 m beam
trawl fisheries using chain mats and limited haul durations. This so-called “eurocutter” …

High-grading is the decision by fishers to discard fish of low value that allows them to land
more valuable fish. A literature review showed high-grading is reported in commercial and …

In an effort to improve the selectivity of beam trawls in the Belgian flatfish fishery, codend
size selectivity of three flatfish and two roundfish species were compared testing 80 mm …

With the development of the ecosystem approach to fisheries, improving fishing selectivity
has increasingly been put forward as an objective for management. The aim of this paper is …

A large portion of the catch in many stocks may comprise discards which need to be
accounted for in assessments in order to avoid bias in estimates of fishing mortality, stock …

North Sea cod Gadus morhua stock is outside safe biological limits, and total allowable
catch (TAC) management has proved ineffective to rebuild the stock. The European …

We analysed data collected on board commercial purse seine vessels in the Aegean and
Ionian Seas (eastern Mediterranean Sea, Greece) in 13 seasonal sampling periods from …