Size selection of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) in trawls.

Trawlers involved in the Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) fishery use different trawl designs, and very little is known about the size selectivity of the various gears. Size selectivity quantifies a given trawl's ability to catch different sizes of a harvested entity, and this information is...

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Main Authors: Ludvig A Krag, Bent Herrmann, Svein A Iversen, Arill Engås, Sigve Nordrum, Bjørn A Krafft
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4126659?pdf=render