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Comparative fishing to evaluate the viability of an aligned footgear designed to reduce seabed contact in northern shrimp bottom trawl fisheries

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Published in 2018 at "Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences"

DOI: 10.1139/cjfas-2016-0461

Abstract: We developed and evaluated an innovative trawl technology that reduces seabed contact while targeting northern shrimp (Pandalus borealis) off the east coast of Canada. The innovative footgear, referred to as the “aligned footgear”, was evaluated… read more here.

Keywords: aligned footgear; northern shrimp; bottom trawl; seabed contact ... See more keywords