Bottom trawl catch comparison in the Mediterranean Sea: Flexible Turtle Excluder Device (TED) vs traditional gear | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction

Submitted by lweiss on December 13, 2019 – 10:24

No significant loss of commercial weight of fish, similar rates of capture without any significant loss of sizes (with the exception of anglerfish), significant reduction of debris in the codend Unknown (no turtles captured in either control or experimental trawls)

• Caretta caretta (Loggerhead turtle)