The available database comprises research projects in Fisheries, Aquaculture, Seafood Processing and Marine Biotechnology active in the time period 2003-2022.
BlueBio is an ERA-NET COFUND created to directly identify new and improve existing ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market and find new ways of creating value from in the blue bioeconomy.

More information on the BlueBio project and participating funding organizations is available on the BlueBio website: www.bluebioeconomy.eu

Last Update: 2024/06/19

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Fisheries
Trail to reduce cod by-catches in Shetland whitefish fisheries by modifying the front portion of a commercial trawl to incorporate large meshes (300mm)
National Programme
National
Robert Kynoch
robert.kynoch@scotland.gsi.gov.uk
MSS - Marine Scotland Science (United Kingdom)
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2009
2010
€ 95,000
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During 2009 experimental trials were conducted to assess the extent to which cod by-catches in the Shetland mixed whitefish fishery would be reduced by replacing the 120mm netting in the front sections of a trawl with 300 and 600mm netting. A further aim was to assess the effect of these modified trawls on the catches of monkfish and megrim, which are economically important to the Shetland fleet. The results showed that both test gears caught significantly fewer cod, hake, megrim and ling than the control trawl across all length classes and significantly fewer monkfish below 76 and 83cm respectively than the control trawl. The 300mm trawl caught significantly more haddock than the other trawls and catches of saithe greater than 53cm were reduced in both test gears.
Trawling; Fishing technology; Environmental impact; Gear selectivity; Bycatch; Whitefish; Cod;
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
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