MARIPET

Results Discards in fishery create an important time-wasting, a huge economical source loss, and also ecological tragedy. The first outcome of MARIPET is to increase awareness about this negative impact and push sectoral professionals to spend their effort to reduce it. There are many studies carried out by fisheries engineers, especially on the selectivity of fishing gears. Although many of these studies have positive results, it can be said that the fishermen are not very successful in practice due to commercial concerns. Because the efforts to reduce discard are also partially reducing the catch of commercial species. Unfortunately, commercial concerns that this fact creates on fishermen often make fisheries engineers discard reduction solutions out of the way. In reality, most of the scientific studies stress that reducing discard in the fishery is not such an easy process and today's captured-based fisheries techniques do not manage to remove it successfully. Although it cannot be..