‘Discarding and bycatch could quickly could quickly become a thing of the past,’ say research team An underwater robotic sorting device which helps trawlers prevent bycatch by identifying and sizing fish and other marine life in real time is being…
An industry workshop in Peterhead explored plans to extend the use of the BATmap bycatch avoidance tool in Scottish fisheries By Tara Marshall, senior lecturer in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Aberdeen Once participating skippers had…
A requirement for all wild-capture commercial fishers to report any incidental bycatch of marine mammals during fishing operations will be incorporated into licence conditions from 30 November. The announcement of the new measure explains that DEFRA and the devolved administrations…
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