The impact of turtle excluder devices and bycatch reduction devices on diverse tropical marine communities in Australia's northern prawn trawl fishery

Location
Northern Australia
Article
The impact of turtle excluder devices and bycatch reduction devices on diverse tropical marine communities in Australia's northern prawn trawl fishery
Target catch
Prawns
Study Type
Field study in the wild
Effect on target catch
6% reduction, but 41% reduction in soft and damaged prawns
Effect on bycatch species
The combination of TEDs and BRDs reduced the weight of small bycatch by 8% This appears to be almost entirely due to TEDs, which produced a similar result on their own
Bycatch species
Bony Fishes
Juvenile/Non-target fishes (not specified to species level)
Fishing Gear
Trawls
Reduction technique
Excluder devices