Swimming speeds of marine fish in relation to fishing gears

Swimming ability plays a vital role in the survival of fish in terms of catching a prey and escaping from a predator or a fishing gear. Knowledge of how fish swim and how well they can swim is very important in the design and operation of selective and energyconserving commercial fishing gears, and in fisheries resource assessment through better understanding of selectivity and efficiency of survey trawls. This paper summar­ izes recent findings of swimming performance in marine fishes and discusses how a change in swimming ability due to biological and environmental conditions and how a change in trawl operation can influence the size selectivity of a trawl. Special attention is paid to commercially important species, including mackerel ( Scom ber scom brus ), herring (Clupea harengus), cod (Gadus m orhua ), and saithe (Pollachius virens).

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