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- Title
Use of escape vents to improve size and species selectivity of collapsible pot for blue swimming crab Portunus pelagicus in Thailand.
- Authors
Boutson, Anukorn; Mahasawasde, Chaichan; Mahasawasde, Songsri; Tunkijjanukij, Suriyan; Arimoto, Takafumi
- Abstract
Laboratory experiments were firstly conducted to determine the possibility of modification of the collapsible pot for blue swimming crab Portunus pelagicus by designing appropriate escape vents in terms of shape, position, and size to improve size selectivity by reducing the catch of immature crabs. In laboratory observations, nearly square-shaped vents of 35 mm height and 45 mm length, located at the lower part of the side panel, showed the best performance to allow the escape of immature-size crabs by side-crawling escape behavior through the vents, with L 50% selection carapace length (CL) of 39.1, 44.4, and 48.7 mm CL for 40, 45, and 50 mm vent length, respectively. Comparative fishing trials between conventional and vented pots with vents of 35 × 45 mm size were conducted to examine the crab size and species selectivity. Use of the vented pots was found to reduce the number of immature crabs in the catch from 70.5% to 11.0% on average, while not affecting the catch efficiency of mature-size crabs. The vented pots also had a selective effect for reducing the catch of bycatch species in comparative fishing trials.
- Subjects
CRABS; CRAB pots; BYCATCHES; CRAB fisheries; FISHERY discards; CATCH effort in fishing; FISH research; FISHERIES; AQUACULTURE
- Publication
Fisheries Science, 2009, Vol 75, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0919-9268
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12562-008-0010-z