| Net selectivity in fishing the Norway lobster, Nophrops noruegicus (L., 1758), has only until now been the subject of a limited number of publications. Among the authors who have approached the problem, POPE and THOMAS (1965), COLE and SIMPSON (1965), FIGUEIREDO and THOMAS (1967) emphasized the great variability of the results. The research work that we present here does not claim to be exhaustive. It is appropriate, in fact, to emphasize that our data come from a selectivity campaign mainly devoted to hake (DARDIGNAC, HÉDÉ-HAUY and PORTIER, 1968). The trawls that were used on board the Thalassa are very different, as much by their design and their dimensions as by their meshing, from those used on board the small fishing ships that hunt Dublin bay prawn... |
