Pouting (Bycatch)

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General

Cod-like fish

Cod-like fishes belong to the Gadidae family. This includes the Atlantic and Pacific cod, pouting, haddock, whiting, European pollock, Alaska pollock and saithe. They live near the seabed in coastal waters and in deeper waters. During the day, they aggregate in schools. At night, they separate to forage independently. Gadidae are omnivorous fish that feed on worms, molluscs, bivalves, crustaceans and small fish. They migrate over large distances to spawn and to hunt on large schools of herring and smelt.

Pouting (Bycatch)

Pouting is a fish in the family of cod, just like whiting, pollock and haddock. Pouting is found in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, from the British Isles en southern Norway to the African coast. It is also found in the western part of the Mediterranean. Pouting is mostly living on edge of the continental shelf, but migrates to shallow coastal waters to spawn. Pouting lives in groups, close to the bottom and eats small benthic fauna, like worms, shrimps and mussels and sometimes small fish. Juvenile pouting are commonly found in schools. It is a small codlike species with a maximum length of 46 cm and a maximum age of 3 years.

Pouting (Bycatch)

Trisopterus luscus

Origin

Atlantic Ocean, northeast (FAO 27)

Farming- / Catch method

Bycatch – fishing method: any gear type

Minder tonen Toon beoordeling

Fish stocks and fishing pressure

Ecosystem effects

Fishery management

Final assessment

Explanation assessment

Although pouting is commonly occuring in the North Sea, there is no fishery targeting it. Pouting is mostly landed as bycatchBycatch:
Species caught next to species targeted for fishery. By-catches can consist of non-commercial species and species that are too small, and can be kept (this part is sometimes called by-product) or thrown back into the sea (discards). from the mixed bottom trawl fishery on roundfish, like cod.

Although there are no stock estimates done for pouting, it is the general impression that the fishing pressure is low and the stocks are not being overfished. Pouting is moderately vulnerable to fishing pressure. The mixed bottom trawl fishery, in which pouting is caught, has relatively much bycatch. Unwanted species are discarded. These discards hardly survive. There is also interaction between the fishing gear and the seabed, which disrupts the seabed. With prolonged disruption of the seabed on a large scale, it can cause a change in the species composition and richness in sea. Because there is no targeted fishery on pouting and it is a commonly occuring species, there is no separate fishery management for it.

Pouting (Bycatch)

General

Cod-like fish

Pouting (Bycatch)

Pouting (Bycatch)

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