GB-Lowestoft: Provision of Seafish-Cefas Managed Sea Trials of a Low Lift Demersal Trawl Off SW England.

A number of projects looking at trawl selectivity have taken place over the last 3 years under the Fisheries Science Partnership and ASSIST Project involving the SW industry and Cefas scientists. The main focus has been to identify modifications to the design and construction of demersal otter trawls intended to avoid or release haddock with minimal losses of other species. Having reviewed the results of these projects, Seafish is funding further work jointly run by Seafish and Cefas with SW fishermen to develop a...