Title: The use of square mesh codends in the Icelandic shrimp (Pandalus borealis) fishery
Abstract: Large quantities of 0-group fish and small undersized shrimp on many inshore shrimp fishing grounds in Iceland have frequently prevented shrimping for extended periods. Many experiments have been carried out to solve this problem, but none of them was successful. The paper describes experiments with square mesh netting in the codend which reduced the by-catch of 0-group fish drastically and the catch of undersized shrimp to a great extent. The reduction of some 10–20% in the shrimp catch was easily accepted by fishermen as it was mainly due to small shrimp that could not be utilized. All boats in the inshore shrimp fishery are now using square mesh netting in the codends in their trawls to reduce the manual work of sorting out the by-catch and to increase the value of their quota by landing larger and more expensive shrimp.
Publication Year: 1992
Publication Date: 1992-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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