Fishing gear technology at Cefas
Improving selectivity - Reducing discarding
Cefas works closely with the fishing industry in continually striving to improve the selectivity of the fishing gears they use. Improving the selectivity of fishing gears helps to reduce the wasteful discarding of unwanted fish and other species (discards) which get caught by the gears. Each fishery (and sometimes each vessel) requires its own solutions to minimise the unwanted discarding and optimise the selectivity of their gears. Some good progress has been made to date and discarding is decreasing in the English and Welsh fishing industry. There is, however, a continued need to work closely with the fishing industry to further reduce discarding to the practicable minimum. Cefas continues to work actively in this field (primarily funded by Defra), while ensuring close collaboration with the fishing industry and other stakeholder agencies, such as Seafish, AFBI (Northern Ireland), Marine Lab, Scotland and various European partners.
Project 50% (Reducing discards in the Devon beam trawl fleet) 2009
- Vidoes
- Initial scoping study (PDF, 318 KB)
- Newsletter No. 2 (PDF, 529 KB)
- Newsletter No. 1 (PDF, 630 KB)
- Sea trials No. 1 MFV Korenbloem (PDF, 2,642 KB)
- Sea trials No. 2 MFV Barentszee (PDF, 395 KB)
- Sea trials No. 3 MFV Emilia Jayne (PDF, 4, 701 KB)
- Sea trials No. 4 MFV Kerrie Marie (PDF. 884 KB)
- Sea trials No. 5 MFV Geeske (PDF, 854 KB)
- Sea trials No. 6 MFV Christina (PDF, 1,330 KB)
- Sea trials No. 7 MFV Margaret of Ladrum (PDF, 566 KB)
- Sea trials No. 8 MFV Admiral Grenville (PDF, 566 KB)
- Sea trials No. 9 MFV Lloyd Tyler (PDF, 698 KB)
- Sea trials No. 10 MFV Carhelmar (PDF, 558 KB)
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