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Fishery and Sea ResourcesFigure 4: Merluccius merluccius (European hake). For the explanations see caption Figure2.viduals of European hake (M. merluccius)equal or above 20 cm, which is the MLS[6] and a large proportion of those below20 cm (79% and 62% in the DM38 andSM38, respectively) were retained in thecodends. In the present study the expectedL50, calculated using Fryer’s model (Figure4b), declined from 14.11 cm to 8.30 cmwhen the DM38 codend replaced the SM38codend, while SR decreased significantlyfrom 3.64 cm to 1.75 cm (Figure 4b). Notably,for this species the model best describingthe data (Table 2) showed thatfishing depth also significantly (p