Fisheries - Enviro Dynamics Namibia

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Figure 50. Areas identified to estimate fishing vessel activity in the mined and adjacent areas.
9.1 RESULTS
The results of this assessment are summarised in Tables 9 and 10.
In Table 9 we calculated an average number of times vessels from the different fisheries were
reported in the MLA and Zone 1 (this differs slightly from the areas shown in Figure 50). Note that
this relates only to the data provided and does not include possible passage through the area when
no fishing or when no catch log data is recorded.
Table 9 is self explanatory giving a breakdown by vessel power group. Note that the smaller vessels
are in the hake longline group, hake trawl sectors include large freezers and smaller wetfish vessels
and the horse mackerel vessels are the largest. No vessel power data was provided for the monk and
small pelagic trawls. It could be assumed that the monk fishery uses mostly smaller vessels with an
approximate power similar to the smaller hake trawl groups.
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