What does BRD stand for?

Bycatch Reduction Device (fishing industry)

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During the last 20 years, concerns over the mortality of these organisms have culminated in complete closures to fishing at some locations, and the development of, and legislation for, modifications to trawls, including bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) and square-mesh codends, for use throughout the remaining fleet (Broadhurst and Kennelly, 1996; Macbeth et al.

Modified sorting technique to mitigate the collateral mortality of ...

In the Great Barrier Reef bottom trawling is permitted, but a strict management plan aims to minimise impacts by restricting the area available for trawling, number of fishing days and boats, and through the use of Turtle Excluder Devices and Bycatch Reduction Devices.

A warning and action on coral reef conservation

The Gulf FMC voted in 1997 to require bycatch reduction devices (BRDs) in the shrimp fishery (109) and subsequent improvements in BRDs have led to increases in their effectiveness.

Living marine resources management: a proposal for integration of ...

An assessment of bycatch reduction devices in a tropical Australian prawn trawl fishery.

Does the size of subsamples taken from multispecies trawl catches ...

[FIGURE 1 OMITTED] Sampled shrimp boats towed one or two nets, and all nets contained some form of turtle excluder device (TED) and bycatch reduction device (BRD) required by regulation.

Estimation of bycatch in shrimp trawl fisheries: a comparison of ...

An assessment of bycatch reduction devices in a tropical Australian prawn trawl fishery.

Sustainability of elasmobranchs caught as bycatch in a tropical prawn ...

0 Table 3 Comparison of mean standard length measurements (mm) of the most abundant species caught in nets equipped with either the Florida fisheye (FFE) or the extended mesh funnel (EMF) bycatch reduction device (BRD) and their corresponding control nets.

Efficiency of bycatch reduction devices in small otter trawls used in ...

Effectiveness of four industry-developed bycatch reduction devices in Louisiana's inshore waters.

Effects of twine diameter and mesh size in the body of prawn trawls ...