On the southern coast of South Korea, dark-banded rockfish, sea bass, and red seabream are caught by single-line fishing. In particular, bass in Jeollanam-do region using gear with attached fishing hooks, such as long-line gear, live shrimp bait. The objective this study was to compare catch efficiency two types (naturally grown Shiba [Metapenaeus joyneri] cultured whiteleg [Litopenaeus vanname...

Various plastic strips and sheets (termed 'simple anterior fish excluders'-SAFEs) were positioned across the openings of penaeid trawls in attempts at reducing the unwanted bycatches of small teleosts. Initially, three SAFEs (a single wire without, and with small and large plastic panels) were compared against a control (no SAFE) on paired beam trawls. All SAFEs maintained targeted Metapenaeus ...