Small pelagic fishes particularly anchovy (Encrasicholina punctifer) and sardine (Sardinella sindensis) have an important role to support the Iranian fisheries, and are distributed along the entire length of the Persian Gulf and Oman Sea coastal waters. Using small pelagic fisheries logbook, a GIS-based environmental modelling approach was applied to investigate the presence and abundance of an...

E-mail address (for F. Hazin): [email protected] depths between 5 and 10 m. Bottom longlines consisted of a multifilament mainline (6 mm in diameter) with up to 100 secondary lines, each approx. 5 m in length and constructed from 3-mm diameter monofilament attached to a wire snood (1 m in length). Types of hooks varied among brands, but rela­ tive sizes (i.e. 9/0) remained similar.The mai...

India has a long coastal line of about 8000 km includes 13 main land states and 5 Union territories which comprises significant biodiversity. The east and west coast of India continues to be a large fishing ground in the south Asian region and is one of the largest marine product nations in the world. During the period of 2009, India’s annual fish landings are about 3.16 million tonnes [1]. Fis...

The size selectivity of trammel nets was investigated in the northern Aegean Sea using 10 different inner-panel mesh sizes ranging from 16 to 70 mm nominal (bar length). Selectivity estimates were made for eight most abundant target and bycatch fish species, namely black scorpionfish, Scorpaena porcus Linnaeus, 1758; annular seabream, Diplodus annularis (Linnaeus, 1758); red mullet, Mullus barb...