Understanding discarding in trawl fisheries: A model based demersal case study with implications for mitigating and assessing impacts.

ABSTRACT: Despite research and public scrutiny over recent decades, discarding continues to be an issue for trawl fisheries. Previous research demonstrates that environmental, biological, operational, legislative and socioeconomic drivers affect a fisher's decision to discard an organism. Therefore, the reduction of fishery discards requires a better understanding of fishery-specific drivers. Despite considerable research and mitigation, further work is required to reduce discarding to acceptable levels (currently ~ 50% in Australia). To better understand the drivers of discarding, this study used a modelling approach to determine environmental and operational factors that drive discarding in the New South Wales (NSW) ocean prawn trawl fishery (OPT). Further, the study investigated the relationship

SUBMITTER: Barnes TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8853496 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature