• Effect of a quality-improving codend on size selectivity and catch patterns of cod in bottom trawl fishery 

      Brinkhof, Jesse; Herrmann, Bent; Larsen, Roger B.; Veiga-Malta, Tiago (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-26)
      A new codend concept developed and tested exhibited significantly improved quality of caught cod (<i>Gadus morhua</i>) compared to that of the conventional codend used in the Barents Sea bottom trawl fishery. However, the design of the new quality-improving codend raised concerns about its size selectivity and the possibility that higher retention probability could negatively impact the catch pattern ...
    • Industry-led fishing gear development: Can it facilitate the process? 

      Veiga-Malta, Tiago; Feekings, Jordan; Herrmann, Bent; Krag, Ludvig A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-16)
      In the reformed technical measures regulation, the European Union proposed a greater involvement of the fishing industry in the different managerial aspects of fisheries. However, having the industry as a main actor in gear development presents a new suite of challenges. The industry, while addressing an issue in the fishery, can modify several aspects of a fishing gear simultaneously, without ...
    • Testing a size sorting grid in the brown shrimp (Crangon Crangon Linnaeus, 1758) beam trawl fishery 

      Veiga-Malta, Tiago; Feekings, J.P.; Frandsen, R.P.; Herrmann, Bent; Krag, L.A. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2020-08-12)
      The North Sea brown shrimp (<i>Crangon crangon</i> Linnaeus, 1758) fishery became Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified in 2017. As part of the certification, the fishermen proposed to incrementally increase the mesh size of the codend used from 22 mm to 26 mm. As this increase in mesh size could result in a substantial loss of marketable sized brown shrimp (shrimp with total length equal or ...
    • When is enough, enough? Quantifying trade-offs between information quality and sampling effort for fishing gear selectivity data 

      Veiga-Malta, Tiago; Feekings, Jordan; Herrmann, Bent; Krag, Ludvig Ahm (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-21)
      There is general pressure throughout the world’s fisheries for the industry to have greater involvement not only in the development of fishing gears but also in the testing and documentation of their effect. In the European Union, the Common Fisheries Policy of 2013, together with the proposed reform of the technical measures regulation, highlights the need for greater flexibility in fisheries through ...