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Factors Affecting the Performance of a Survey Bottom Trawl

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Results and Conclusions:<br />

(Doubleday and Rivard)<br />

• <strong>Trawl</strong> is a quantitative sampling tool that<br />

must be calibrated, but even so <strong>the</strong>re will<br />

be variable catch efficiency.<br />

• Measurement variability due to vessel,<br />

fishing gear and environmental factors.<br />

• Impossible to separate variability due to<br />

fish distributions from measurement error.

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