Otter trawling for fish is one of the world's most productive yet problematic fishing methods
due to its bycatch and discards; issues that have been mitigated in some fisheries by …

Abstract In the Mediterranean Sea, where bottom trawling for demersal species is the most
important fishery in terms of landings, around 75% of the assessed fish stocks are …

Bottom trawl fisheries often catch several species simultaneously. However, most studies
addressing the catch performance and selectivity of a specific trawl focus on a few …

This paper evaluates the effect of changing from a diamond mesh codend (T0) to a 90°
turned mesh codend (T90) on the size selectivity of seven commercially important species in …

The catch composition of bottom trawls is commonly refined and improved through changes
in codend design. Measures like reducing the number of meshes in codend circumference …

Introduction Most Mediterranean fish stocks are overexploited owing to high fishing efforts
and poor exploitation patterns. Demersal trawl fisheries are considered the most impactful …

Commercial bycatch species and their exploitation pattern in the Mediterranean trawl fishery
are little studied. The present work examines the overall size-selection pattern, both …

The management of multispecies fisheries, such as the Mediterranean bottom trawl fishery,
is always a challenge. However, information on gear selectivity and discards has been …

As part of attempts to improve selection among south-eastern Australian benthic fish trawls,
an experiment was done to assess:(1) for confounding effects of a narrower-than …

Intrinsic differences in the applied management measures of shared stocks in transboundary
waters inhibit the ability of either state to benefit from such measures, as one state may …