Functionality of a full-sized marine mammal exclusion device

An excluder device, tested on a trawl net in a flume tank with dummy seals in New Zealand excluded dummy seals from the codend of the net. The modifications were trialed to address bycatch of Hookers sea lions and New Zealand fur seals.
Field Studies:

Location	Fishing gear	Reduction technique	Bycatch species	Effect on bycatch species	Catch	Effect on target catch	Type
Flume tank	Trawls	Excluder devices	Pinnipeds	Excluded experimental dummy seals	Scallop		In the wild