Technical innovations in fisheries

The project aims to develop and optimize innovations in professions practiced by Belgian fishermen to reduce by-catches and/or optimize commercial catches. In this way, the project will optimally assist the sector in dealing with the landing obligation and Brexit. The main focus of the project is on the beam trawl fleet, where (1) promising innovative ideas to improve the selectivity of the net will be tested on board research and/or commercial fishing vessels at the request of the sector and (2) innovative applications in beam trawling will be investigated. Fishing techniques that are currently practiced by a minority of the fleet but which have a lot of potential in the context of fleet diversification are also part of the project. Research will be conducted into the innovative applications in otter trawling, flyshoot fishing and passive fishing. The project provides for a number of sea trials for each technical innovation and profession, during which we will collect data on board commercial vessels and research vessels

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