Estimating seabed pressure from demersal trawls, seines, and dredges based on gear design and dimensions

OR Eigaard, F Bastardie, M Breen… - ICES Journal of …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This study assesses the seabed pressure of towed fishing gears and models the physical
impact (area and depth of seabed penetration) from trip-based information of vessel size …

Is square-mesh better selective than larger mesh? A perspective on the management for Mediterranean trawl fisheries

A Sala, A Lucchetti, A Perdichizzi, B Herrmann… - Fisheries …, 2015 - Elsevier
Relatively little scientific work has been done to assess the selectivity of square-mesh
codends in the highly variable multi-species conditions in the Italian trawl fisheries …

Selective characteristics of a shark-excluding grid device in a Mediterranean trawl

J Brčić, B Herrmann, F De Carlo, A Sala - Fisheries Research, 2015 - Elsevier
Galeus melastomus (blackmouth catshark) is often caught as bycatch in demersal trawls in
the Mediterranean. In order to reduce bycatches of shark we tested an excluder grid with 90 …

Can a square-mesh panel inserted in front of the cod end improve size and species selectivity in Mediterranean trawl fisheries?

J Brčić, B Herrmann, A Sala - Canadian Journal of Fisheries …, 2018 - cdnsciencepub.com
An experiment was conducted to assess the selectivity in a typical Mediterranean bottom
trawl, equipped with a square-mesh panel inserted in front of the cod end, for Atlantic horse …

Effect of codend circumference on the size selection of square-mesh codends in trawl fisheries

A Sala, B Herrmann, F De Carlo, A Lucchetti, J Brčić - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
It is well established that increasing mesh number in the circumference of a diamond-mesh
trawl codend can reduce size selection for round fish, whereas selection for flat fish species …

Habitat Suitability Models of a Critically Endangered Cold-water Coral, Isidella Elongata, in the Mallorca Channel

W Standaert, P Puerta, F Mastrototaro… - … An International Journal …, 2023 - Springer
The bamboo coral Isidella elongata is often associated with a diverse community, including
commercial fish species, playing an important role in the deep-sea Mediterranean as a …

Otterboard hydrodynamic performance testing in flume tank and wind tunnel facilities

F Mellibovsky, J Prat, E Notti, A Sala - Ocean Engineering, 2018 - Elsevier
Two pelagic otterboards, previously tested in a wind tunnel, have been tested in a flume tank
prior to their analysis in real working conditions in sea trials. This intermediate step aims at …

Testing otter board hydrodynamic performances in wind tunnel facilities

F Mellibovsky, J Prat, E Notti, A Sala - Ocean Engineering, 2015 - Elsevier
The feasibility and potential advantages of wind tunnel testing of otter board designs are
assessed. Traditional flume tank tests incur high operational costs and present some …

Trawling in the Mediterranean: An exploration of empirical relations connecting fishing gears, otterboards and propulsive characteristics of fishing vessels

A Sala, E Notti, S Bonanomi, J Pulcinella… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Fishing pressure is often expressed in terms of a vessels physical attributes, like tonnage
and engine power, while a common definition of fishing capacity identifies vessel size as a …

Bottom trawls specifications and their relation with the stock of Rhabdosargus haffara in the Gulf of Suez, Red Sea Egypt..

MM Elkohafy, MS Hussein… - Egyptian Journal of …, 2021 - search.ebscohost.com
This study was conducted at Attaka harbor in the Gulf of Suez (Red Sea) during the 2018-
2020 fishing seasons to assess the technical specifications of trawl nets, morphometric …