Conference paper
The impact of gear regulation changes on discard rates: the case of the Baltic Sea cod fishery
National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark1
Section for Management Systems, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark2
Section for Population Ecology and Genetics, National Institute of Aquatic Resources, Technical University of Denmark3
Technical regulations have been introduced in almost all developed fisheries worldwide during the last 30 years. The main objective of these regulations has been to improve the state of the fishery or the stocks within by allowing juveniles and young individuals to escape. In the Baltic Sea, cod stocks have decline considerably over the past 30 years which has subsequently led to numerous legislations and policies being introduced to improving the state of the stocks.
We evaluate whether the developments made to trawls used in the Baltic Sea cod fishery to improve selectivity and the increase in minimum landing size (MLS) have had any marked effect on the discard rates of the target species, cod. Results show that the gear regulation changes enforced in the Baltic demersal trawl fishery have had diverse effects on discard rates and are largely dependent on the gear, recruitment, and compliance by the fishermen
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2012 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| ORCIDs: | Feekings, Jordan P. |
