Caught and released: an overview of fishes’ sensitivity to being discarded as a tool to aid pursuing ecosystem-based management 2 (39796/104066)

Project Details

Description

The project aims at estimating discard survival for undersized plaice in the Baltic (areas 24 and 25) otter bottom trawl fleet, following ICES guidelines so that the discard estimate may be used to document a high survival exemption. We will sample undersized plaice in commercial conditions, and observe their mortality in captivity (up to 21 days until the mortality levels off). Experimental conditions will include the two legal codends (mesh size of at least 120 mm constructed from T90, or at least 105 mm fitted with a BACOMA exit window of 120 mm), as well as key environmental conditions known to affect discard survival.

Partners
DTU Aqua, National Institute of Aquatic Resources
Danish Fishermen PO, Denmark
Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Belgium

Funding
The project is funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) and the Danish Fisheries Agency.

Research area: Fisheries Technology
Research area: Marine Populations and Ecosystem Dynamics
Research area: Aquaculture
Research area: Fish Biology
AcronymCOPE2
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date09/06/202022/10/2022

Keywords

  • discard survival
  • Baltic Sea
  • European plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)
  • bottom trawl
  • T90
  • SELTRA
  • environmental factors
  • captive observation
  • hypoxia

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