Assessment of “weak hook” effects on fish catches and sizes in a pelagic longline fishery

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• Journal Title:
  Marine and Coastal Fisheries
• Personal Author:
  Orbesen, Eric S ; Foster, Daniel G ; Blankinship, David R ; Cushner, Sascha ; Bergmann, Charles ; Serafy, Joseph E
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NMFS (National Marine Fisheries Service) ; OSF (Office of Sustainable Fisheries) ; SEFSC (Southeast Fisheries Science Center)
• Description:
  We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of “weak hooks” in reducing the bycatch of Bluefin Tuna Thunnus thynnus in the U.S. Gulf of America (also known as Gulf of Mexico) pelagic longline fishery while maintaining catch rates and size distributions of the primary target species, Yellowfin Tuna T. albacares.
• Source:
  Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 17(5)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1093/mcfafs/vtaf024
• ISSN:
  1942-5120
• Format:
  pdf
• Publisher:
  Oxford University Press (OUP)|https://ror.org/0336mm561
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
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