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July 14, 2020

Estimating the Discard Mortality of Atlantic Cod in the Southern Gulf of Maine Commercial Lobster Fishery

by B. B. Sweezey, C. W. Capizzano, J .A. Langan, H. P. Benoît, E. W. Hutchins II, J. W. Mandelman, W. Y. Koh, M. J. Dean, B. N. Anderson and J. A. Sulikowski

Abstract The Gulf of Maine (GOM) commercial lobster fishery has approximately 3.5 million actively fished traps and captures several nontargeted groundfish species, including Atlantic Cod Gadus morhua, as bycatch, yet there has been limited research on the incidental mortality of groundfish in this fishery. Although the mortality of Atlantic Cod…

• Marine

• Atlantic Cod
• Fish