- Title
- Managing South Africa's trawl bycatch
- Creator
- Walmsley, Sarah A
- Creator
- Leslie, Rob W
- Creator
- Sauer, Warwick H H
- Date Issued
- 2006
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/124954
- Identifier
- vital:35713
- Identifier
- https://doi.10.1093/icesjms/fsl022
- Description
- Over the past few decades, it has become widely recognized that the management strategies of world fisheries must ensure sustainability of bycatch as well as of target species. South Africa implemented a pilot observer programme from 1995 to 2000 to collect data on the levels and patterns of bycatch and discards in the demersal trawl fishery. Here, the results of that programme are used in conjunction with information on bycatch value and compliance to assess the issues and problems regarding bycatch and discarding in the fishery. In general, bycatch components can be placed into one of three categories (discarded bycatch, retained bycatch, and processing waste), each of which present different management problems and require different management approaches. The results were used to formulate a bycatch management plan for the demersal trawl fishery in South Africa. Given the need to continue monitoring bycatch, the performance of the pilot observer programme is reviewed, and the levels of sampling effort required for a national programme are discussed.
- Format
- 8 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- Relation
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Relation
- Walmsley, S.A., Leslie, R.W. and Sauer, W.H., 2006. Managing South Africa's trawl bycatch. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64(2), pp.405-412
- Relation
- ICES Journal of Marine Science volume 64 number 2 405 412 2006 1054-3139
- Rights
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Oxford Academic Journals Open Access Policy Statement (https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/open_access)
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