Predictive framework for codend size selection of brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) in the North Sea beam-trawl fishery.

The brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) fishery is of great socio-economic importance to coastal communities on the North Sea. The fishery is exploited by beam trawlers often using codends with very small mesh sizes, leading to concerns about catch rates of undersized shrimp. However, little information...

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Main Authors: Juan Santos, Bent Herrmann, Daniel Stepputtis, Claudia Günther, Bente Limmer, Bernd Mieske, Sebastian Schultz, Thomas Neudecker, Axel Temming, Marc Hufnagl, Eckhard Bethke, Gerd Kraus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6047787?pdf=render