• Bycatch reduction in the deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) trawl fishery with a large mesh top panel 

      Cerbule, Kristine; Jacques, Nadine; Pettersen, Hermann; Ingólfsson, Ólafur Arnar; Herrmann, Bent; Grimaldo, Eduardo; Larsen, Roger B.; Brinkhof, Jesse; Sistiaga, Manu; Lilleng, Dagfinn; Brčić, Jure (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In the Northeast Atlantic deep-water shrimp (Pandalus borealis) trawl fishery, the bycatch of juvenile fish and shrimp represents a problem. This study evaluated if inserting a 200 mm mesh size top-panel in the last three ...
    • Can a large-mesh sieve panel replace or supplement the Nordmøre grid for bycatch mitigation in the northeast Atlantic deep-water shrimp fishery? 

      Jacques, Nadine; Herrmann, Bent; Larsen, Roger B.; Sistiaga, Manu Berrondo; Brčić, Jure; Gökçe, Gökhan; Brinkhof, Jesse (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-11)
      The Nordmøre grid is the principle bycatch mitigation device in many shrimp trawl fisheries. However, in several of these fisheries, bycatch is a problem because small sized fish can pass through the grid and enter the ...
    • Effect of ground gear modification on bycatch of rays in mediterranean bottom trawl fishery 

      Fakıoğlu, Y.E.; Özbilgin, H.; Gökçe, G.; Herrmann, Bent (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Bycatch of rays and skates in towed fishing gears represents one of the major threats to these relatively slow-growing marine species. The objective of this study was to modify ground gear in a bottom trawl fishery to ...
    • Improved bycatch reduction in the mixed demersal trawl fishery for Norway pout (Trisopterus esmarkii) 

      Grimaldo, Eduardo; Brinkhof, Jesse; Herrmann, Bent; Cerbule, Kristine; Grimsmo, Leif; Pettersen, Hermann (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In this study, we compared the bycatch reduction capacity of a trawl fitted with a standard rigid sorting grid with that of a trawl fitted with a newly developed, flexible system called the Excluder. We conducted the fishing ...
    • Reducing cod bycatch in flatfish fisheries 

      Santos, Juan; Stepputtis, Daniel; Oesterwind, Daniel; Herrmann, Bent; Lichtenstein, Uwe; Hammerl, Constanze; Krumme, Uwe (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Management measures to facilitate the recovery of fish stocks can lead to shifts in traditional fishing patterns and target species. In the Baltic Sea, drastic reductions in catch quota for cod (Gadus morhua) force mixed ...