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Hook selectivity and catch efficiency in two sport fishing sectors in the Strait of Istanbul, Turkey: Classic handline fishing and Light Rock Fishing (LRF) by Murat Peksu; Uğur Uzer; Taner Yildiz; Adnan Ayaz; F. Saadet Karakulak is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.

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A variety of fishing methods are used to harvest aquatic species for food, either at personal or at commercial scale. Globally, the number of recreational fishermen has been estimated to be between 200 and 700 millions (FAO, 2017). The demersal and pelagic fish fauna in the Sea of Marmara is very dynamic and variable due to the complex and changing hydrological structure highly influenced by in -and outflows of two different larger ecosystems: the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. Owing to these special hydrodynamic features, this "enclosed sea" offers also a variety of habitats suitable for a diverse fish fauna and acts also as a migration route for many species and thus offers great opportunities for anglers. The species caught in the area with handlines are mainly horse mackerel, gray mullet, picarel, atherina, blue fish, scorpion fish, red mullet, sardine, corb, and whiting (Iwano & Öztürk, 2012). Mediterranean horse mackerel is the dominant small pelagic fish species in the Sea of Marmara in terms of catches in the handline fishery. The total fish harvest of the horse mackerel in the Sea of Marmara was recorded with 1,546 tonnes in 2018 (TÜİK, 2019). The customary angling p

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Author

Murat Peksu; Uğur Uzer; Taner Yildiz; Adnan Ayaz; F. Saadet Karakulak

Publisher

Hindawi Limited

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)