Conservation Concerns of Small-Scale Fisheries: By-Catch Impacts of a Shrimp and Finfish Fishery in a Sri Lankan Lagoon

Conservation Concerns of Small-Scale Fisheries: By-Catch Impacts of a Shrimp and Finfish Fishery in a Sri Lankan Lagoon

By-catch is considered a significant problem in large-scale fisheries yet in small-scale fisheries (SSF), employing >99% of the world's fishers, there is limited quantitative understanding of by-catch, and catches in general. We provide an assessment of by-catch from fishing gears (fyke,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benjamin L. Jones, Richard K. F. Unsworth, Susantha Udagedara, Leanne C. Cullen-Unsworth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
by-catch
discards
non-target species
shrimp fisheries
small-scale fisheries
Sri Lanka
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00052/full

Similar Items

Similar Items