. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. LOGOTHETIS SORTS BYCATCH BY SPECIES AND WEIGHS EACH GROUP. Gray trout, a commercially important fish, was among the study's tqp 1 ? bycatch species. logothetis measures a subsample of individuals from each species group. Blue crabs were the most abundant bycatch species recorded during the study period. After being weighed and measured, these Atlantic croaker will be tossed overboard. Although trawling is legal in inside waters, it is not without restrictions. Shrimping is prohibited in the state's primary
. Coast watch. Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology. LOGOTHETIS SORTS BYCATCH BY SPECIES AND WEIGHS EACH GROUP. Gray trout, a commercially important fish, was among the study's tqp 1 ? bycatch species. logothetis measures a subsample of individuals from each species group. Blue crabs were the most abundant bycatch species recorded during the study period. After being weighed and measured, these Atlantic croaker will be tossed overboard. Although trawling is legal in inside waters, it is not without restrictions. Shrimping is prohibited in the state's primary nursery areas, the shallow, low-salinity waters in the upper portions of creeks and bays that are sources of food and shelter for juvenile fish and shellfish. As juveniles develop, they eventually move into lower portion of the creeks and bays, designated as secondary nursery areas. Trawling also is prohibited here. Areas adjacent to secondary nurseries are classified as "special secondary nursery ; 'They only let us shrimp there a very small part of the time," says McCuiston of the special secondary areas. "And when they do, they wait until the shrimp are a certain ; Currently, DMF manages shrimp catches based on count size. If 20 shrimp equal a pound, then the shrimp are fairly large. If 100 shrimp equal a pound, the shrimp are small, and DMF will close certain areas to trawling. In Pender County, most of the inside waters are managed as special secondary nursery areas. As part of developing the Shrimp Fishery Management Plan, DMF recommended designating more of these areas in New Hanover and Brunswick counties. Logothetis' findings on count size supported some of DMF's long-term data on shrimp in New Hanover County: mainly they're not very big. There is not much viable habitat left along the county's heavily populated, 20-mile stretch of the ICW, she says. "The shrimp get washed out into the Intracoastal Waterway and never really bec
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