The Fisheries Division hosted a Fishing Gear Technology Workshop during the week of 23-27 September 2024 . The workshop was led by Dr. Antonello Sala, Consultant with the REBYC-III CLME+ Project.
The workshop covered topics such as gear design, fishing gear performance, selectivity, fish behaviour, discard reduction, seabed impacts, energy use in fisheries, environmental impacts, and seafood sustainability initiatives.
Computer exercises were used to demonstrate methods that make inference about the selective properties of fishing gears. The participants learned how to formulate and implement computer models for size selection processes in fishing gears.
The week ended with a dockside engagement with longline fishers to discuss experimental methodologies and relevant technology to be tested during the project.
Workshop Participants
Dockside engagement at the Bridgetown Fisheries Complex