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Every animal matters! Evaluating the selectivity of a Mediterranean bottom trawl fishery from a species community perspective
| العنوان: | Every animal matters! Evaluating the selectivity of a Mediterranean bottom trawl fishery from a species community perspective |
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| المؤلفون: | Petetta, Andrea, Herrmann, Bent, Veli, Daniel Li, Virgili, Massimo, De Marco, Rocco, Lucchetti, Alessandro |
| بيانات النشر: | PLOS |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive |
| الوصف: | Bottom trawl fisheries often catch several species simultaneously. However, most studies addressing the catch performance and selectivity of a specific trawl focus on a few commercially important or most vulnerable species requiring management measures. By contrast, the present study considers the multispecies nature of Mediterranean bottom trawl fisheries through a holistic approach that accounts for the full species community in the catches. Specifically, we evaluated and compared the catch performance of the two codends allowed for this fishery, made of 40 mm square (SM40) and 50 mm diamond (DM50) meshes. Results showed that 50 and 80% of the catch in weight and count numbers, respectively, consisted of species without commercial value, demonstrating that large proportions of the catch are not considered when using the existing approach to evaluate the ecological impact of the fishing activity. Significant differences in catch profiles between the two codends were observed, especially for two commercial flatfish species, Arnoglossus laterna and Citharus linguatula, with larger contributions in the SM40. Further, the SM40 codend had a significantly higher retention, compared to DM50 codend, for specific sizes of Merluccius merluccius and Mullus barbatus. The outcomes of the study can be useful for the Mediterranean bottom trawl fisheries management. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| Relation: | PLOS ONE; Petetta, Herrmann, Veli, Virgili, De Marco, Lucchetti. Every animal matters! Evaluating the selectivity of a Mediterranean bottom trawl fishery from a species community perspective. PLOS ONE. 2023;18(3); FRIDAID 2141061; https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30091 |
| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0283362 |
| الاتاحة: | https://hdl.handle.net/10037/30091 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0283362 |
| Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) ; openAccess ; Copyright 2023 The Author(s) ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.5E6FFADB |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 19326203 |
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| DOI: | 10.1371/journal.pone.0283362 |