Functionality of a full-sized marine mammal exclusion device

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Citation: Gibson, D. and B. Isakssen, 1998. Functionality of a full-sized marine mammal exclusion device. Science for Conservation, 81.
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Summary:

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.
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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