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As well as providing a forum for gear and fish behaviour scientists to present their latest, research, the WGFTFB also produces "state-of-the-art reviews", describing the latest scientific
developments relating commercial fishing and survey gears.
A selection of the type of work done by WGFTFB members as well as other useful documents and web links are available here.
Size Selectivity
ICES manual of methods of measuring the
selectivity of towed fishing gears. ICES Coop Res. Rep. 215, Wileman et
al, 1996.
(Click here
for downloadable freeware and supporting documentation for analysing size selectivity
data)
Discards
A global assessment
of Fisheries By-catch and Discards (Alverson et al., 1994)
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ORIGINAL GLOBAL ESTIMATE FROM ALVERSON et al. 1994, HAS BEEN DRAMTICALLY REDUCED IN THE
RECENT UPDATE:
Discards in the
World's Marine Fisheries - An Update (Kelleher, 2005)
Benthic Impact and Mitigation
Impact of trawling and scallop dredging on
benthic habitats and communities, FAO Technical Paper 472 (Løkkeborg, 2005)
Mitigation Measures against Seabed
Impact of Mobile Fishing Gears (He et
al, 2004)
Using gear technology to
understand and reduce unintended effects of fishing on the seabed and
associated communities: background and potential directions (Rose et al,
2000)
Mobile
Fishing Gear Effects on Benthic Habitats: A Bibliography (Second Edition). (Dieter, et al, 2003)
Technological Creep
Technological
creep in commercial fisheries (Thomsen et al,
2004)
Economic performance and fishing efficiency of marine capture fisheries, Tietze et al (2005), FAO Fisheries Technical Paper T482
Fish Behaviour
The use of
netting colour and contrast and its effect on fish behaviour (Jones et al 2004)
By-catch Reduction (BRD) Technology
The
Nephrops fisheries of the North East Atlantic and Mediterranean (Graham and Ferro, 2004)
Fish Mortality
Mortality of fish escaping from fishing gears, Suuronen (2005), FAO Fisheries Technical Paper T478
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