Unfortunately not. It was part of a small study on potential impacts of a renewables site on crustaceans/catch rates. The local fisher we used retained all shark/conger bycatch for bait. I have the data if it could be useful. I know the practice also happens in south Devon/Dorset.

Thanks for posting, hadn't seen this study. We saw similar retention of bycatch for bait (catsharks and conger) in a crab/lobster fishery in north Cornwall a few years back. I always wondered if it was scaled up what the effect might be on local or regional populations.

We saw the effect of the MPA on the benthic ecosystem through underwater surveys, with increases in taxonomic diversity, functional diversity and acoustic diversity

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