A simple technical measure to reduce bycatch and discard of skates and sharks in mixed-species bottom-trawl fisheries | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction

Submitted by morgaac on August 27, 2015 – 15:14

Catch rates for flatfish, haddock and whiting did not differ. Larger anglerfish were caught without the ‘tickler’ in place Removing the ‘tickler’ chain resulted in decreased catches of sharks and skates

• Modified ground gear (mobile)