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By-Catch Composition of Groupers from Three Different Types of Trap
Opening In Tok Jembal Beach
Athirah binti Mohd Bakri
Supervisor: Dr. Fazrul Hisam bin Abd. Aziz
Bachelor of Applied Science (Fisheries)
School of Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
In 2016, traps contributed (0.72 %) total landing in Malaysia. However, there is lacking
of study published on study of by catch from trap in Malaysia. The main objectives of
this study are to determine efficiency of three different trap openings towards target
species. The sampling was done at Tok Jembal shore at the depth of 15-20 m. The
data was classified according to three different trap openings which were control(C)
opening, roughly-knitted (RK) opening and neatly-knitted (NK) opening. A total
number of 32 bycatch were found in this study respectively. Three main dominant
bycatch found were fish species (39 %), crustaceans (36%) and gastropods (21%)
respectively. Trap openings C and RK, C and NK, NK and RK indicate no significant
between trap opening and bycatch composition (p = 0.733), (p = 0.349) and (p =
0.656) respectively. As a conclusion, all types of trap opening will give the average
number of bycatch.
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