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William & Mary

2004

Fishing gear

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Scallop Trawl Improvement Program, Thimothy B. Daniels Jan 2004

Scallop Trawl Improvement Program, Thimothy B. Daniels

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Project Goals: 1. To design and test modifications to sea scallop trawl nets enabling reduction in bycatch of regulated finfish species. 2. To test the viability of using smaller trawls, with modified sweeps, to catch larger sizes of sea scallops.


Whale Safe Gillnets, David C. Walker, Fv Nelson Seafood Jan 2004

Whale Safe Gillnets, David C. Walker, Fv Nelson Seafood

Reports

A grant from the Virginia Sea Grant program to test some modified gillnets to find ways of fishing that would allow whales to break free from our fishing gear.