Gujarat Fisheries Regulations

Passive Gear
Entanglement gill nets
Considerations: habitat, depth, mesh size, mortality

Standard

Nordi-mesh

Passive Gear
Entanglement -Longlining
Considerations: Habitat, by-catch, hook size, type of bait, set time, predation, finding the gear

Freshwater Equivalent=

Pelagic

Bottom

Passive Gear
Entrapment- trap nets, know the parts!

Considerations: location, mesh size, funnel diameter

Wings

Pot or Car Funnel Wings Lead

Trap nets, Lots of variety

Fyke Net

Pound Net River Trap Net

PA style trap Net Hoop Net - river

Sea scallops on Georges Bank

Area Closed to fishing

NOAA Fisheries Northeast Fisheries Science Center

NOAA Fisheries - Chantell Royer

Large females produce more offspring

Vermillion rockfish

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans

Big Old Fat Females Rule!

Short-raker rockfish Bering Sea, Alaska 60 lb. female 90-115 years old

NOAA Fisheries

Marine reserves can restore ecological balance

Anacapa Island Marine Reserve, California

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans

What benefits do marine reserves provide outside their boundaries?

Spillover
Spillover from reserves to nonreserve areas

Maximum distance traveled (miles)

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans

Evidence of Spillover
From 2001-03: 42% of total U.S. haddock catch was within 0.6 mi. of closed areas 73% within 3.1 mi.

Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans

NOAA Fisheries

Reserves can also export larval fish and invertebrates to other areas

Seedin g
Larval crab

Year-old sea scallops on Georges Bank

Larval fish

Matt Wilson/Jay Clark, NOAA, NMFS, AFSC (Larval fish) D. Rorcucci, NOAA (Larval crab )

NEFSC (Sea scallops )