At a time when discards are making the news and a way forward seems difficult we find some good news from the Cefas labs and the project they devised with the help of the Brixham beam trawler fleet. Known as Project 50%, the results of the collaboration between gear technologists, fishermen and Cefas has produced impressive and credible improvements to discard rates and earnings.
It's all here in a well illustrated report ready to download and read at leisure.
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