• Effect of Codend Design and Postponed Bleeding on Hemoglobin in Cod Fillets Caught by Bottom Trawl in the Barents Sea Demersal Fishery 

      Jensen, Tonje Kristin; Tobiassen, Torbjørn Inge; Heia, Karsten; Møllersen, Kajsa; Larsen, Roger B.; Esaiassen, Margrethe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-08-03)
      Previous studies have reported that cod caught using a newly developed dual sequential codend showed significant reduction in external catch-related damage compared to cod caught by a conventional codend. In this study, it was investigated whether this new codend affects residual blood in cod fillets and/or mitigates the effect of postponed bleeding. Residual blood was assessed by measuring ...
    • Effect of the T90-codend on the catch quality of cod (Gadus morhua) compared to the conventional codend configuration in the Barents Sea bottom trawl fishery 

      Jensen, Tonje Kristin; Brinkhof, Jesse; Lindberg, Stein-Kato; Tobiassen, Torbjørn Inge; Heia, Karsten; Olsen, Stein Harris; Larsen, Roger B.; Esaiassen, Margrethe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-02-18)
      The aim of this study was to compare the catch quality of Northeast Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Barents Sea bottom trawl fishery caught using the conventional configuration (a sorting grid followed by a diamond mesh (T0) codend) and a T90° turned mesh codend (T90) without a grid. Twenty hauls were conducted, consisting of 10 hauls with the conventional configuration and 10 hauls with the ...
    • Simulated trawling: Exhaustive swimming followed by extreme crowding as contributing reasons to variable fillet quality in trawl-caught Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) 

      Svalheim, Ragnhild Aven; Aas-Hansen, Øyvind; Heia, Karsten; Drangsholt-Karlsson, Anders; Olsen, Stein Harris; Johnsen, Helge K. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2018-07-19)
      Trawl-caught Atlantic cod (<i>Gadus morhua</i>) often yield high variable fillet quality potentially related to capture stress. To investigate mechanisms involved in causing variable quality, commercial-sized (size 3.5±0.9 kg) Atlantic cod were swum to exhaustion in a large swim tunnel and exposed to extreme crowding (736±50 kg m3) for 0, 1 or 3 hours in an experimental cod-end. Further, fish were ...
    • Verktøy for å måle fiskekvalitet - basert på forbrukernes oppfatning (Fase 1 – Forprosjekt). Sluttrapport 

      Nilsen, Heidi; Esaiassen, Margrethe; Østli, Jens; Nøstvold, Bjørg Helen; Pleym, Ingelinn Eskildsen; Reynisson, Eyjólfur; Skjelvareid, Martin Hansen; Heia, Karsten (Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2014-10-16)
      Ved å ha et enkelt verktøy til bruk ved vurdering av kvalitet på fisk i disk kan man sikre at fisk som tilbys forbrukerne har god kvalitet. Det er imidlertid vanskelig å måle fiskekvalitet. Samtidig er det behov for et verktøy for å evaluere kvaliteten på fisken som omsettes. Butikkansatte har behov for å vurdere om fisken holder god nok kvalitet ved mottak og når den skal legges i disken. Mattilsynet ...