Tropical prawn trawl bycatch of fish and seasnakes reduced by yarrow fisheye bycatch reduction device

Authors:

Heales, D.S., Gregor, R., Wakeford, J., Wang, Y.G., Yarrow, J. , Milton, D.A.

Year:

2008

Journal/Publisher Name:

Fisheries Research

Volume/Issue #:

89/1

Page #s:

76-83

Contact information:

don.heales@csiro.au +617 3286 7145

The yarrow fisheye bycatch reduction device reduced the weight of small bycatch by an average of 22.7% and the number of seasnakes caught by an average of 43.3%, with no loss of tiger prawn.
Field Studies:

Location	Fishing gear	Reduction technique	Bycatch species	Effect on bycatch species	Catch	Effect on target catch	Type
Australia	Trawls	Fish escape windows/separator devices	Sea Snakes	reduced mean weight of small bycatch and mean number of seasnakes caught	Tiger prawn	no loss of tiger prawns	In the wild