{"id":63687,"date":"2010-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-researchers-test-new-commercial-fishing-nets-designed-to-reduce-catch-of-non-target-species\/"},"modified":"2010-11-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T00:00:00","slug":"uri-researchers-test-new-commercial-fishing-nets-designed-to-reduce-catch-of-non-target-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/11\/uri-researchers-test-new-commercial-fishing-nets-designed-to-reduce-catch-of-non-target-species\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 researchers test new commercial fishing nets designed to reduce catch of non-target species"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 4, 2010 \u2013 Two experimental commercial fishing nets for use in capturing squid have been tested by 溏心vlog免费B站 fisheries researchers, and preliminary data suggests that they were successful at reducing the capture of non-target species, also called by-catch.<\/p>\n


\n\u201cSquid is one of the most important fisheries in southern New England because the season is open all year, so fishermen can still catch it when other species are out of season or they\u2019ve met their quotas on other fish,\u201d said Barbara Somers, a researcher at the 溏心vlog免费B站 Fisheries Center. <\/p>\n


\nBy-catch is one of the most significant issues facing the commercial fishing industry. When non-target species are captured, it often must be discarded back into the ocean, and much of it is already dead. <\/p>\n


\nSo fishing net designer Jon Knight of Superior Trawl in Narragansett, in collaboration with commercial fishermen Chris Brown and Steve Arnold, developed the two new nets with adaptations that allow non-target species to escape. <\/p>\n


\nOne net incorporates a \u201crope escape panel\u201d into its design that enables finfish like scup and butterfish, which are often found in the same waters as squid, to swim between the ropes and escape. The project, with the assistance of former 溏心vlog免费B站 fisheries researcher David Beutel, was funded through the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation of the Southern New England Collaborative Research Initiative.<\/p>\n


\nThe second net featured a 12-inch \u201cdrop chain\u201d that created an opening beneath the mouth of the net that lets various species of flatfish avoid being captured. It was funded by a grant from the National Marine Fisheries Service to 溏心vlog免费B站 fisheries researchers Kathleen Castro, Laura Skrobe and Somers.<\/p>\n


\nThe 溏心vlog免费B站 researchers spent last spring and summer conducting tests of the new nets in side-by-side comparisons with traditional squid nets. The nets were also tested in a massive flume tank at Memorial University in Newfoundland. The data collected in the tests is still being analyzed, and outreach efforts to the fishing community will take place at the conclusion of the projects.<\/p>\n


\nPreliminary results are promising. In a pilot study of the net designed to eliminate flatfish, the traditional net caught an average of 130 pounds of summer flounder while the redesigned net caught just 20 pounds of the overfished species.

\n\u201cBoth of these net designs will help fishermen reduce the catch of species they don\u2019t want to target, thereby conserving the resource,\u201d said Skrobe.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 4, 2010 \u2013 Two experimental commercial fishing nets for use in capturing squid have been tested by 溏心vlog免费B站 fisheries researchers, and preliminary data suggests that they were successful at reducing the capture of non-target species, also called by-catch. \u201cSquid is one of the most important fisheries in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}