Sustainable razor clam fishery 2013/14 - Fisheries Science Partnership

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• Last updated: 10 July 2024
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Summary

The fishing vessel *Harmoni *(MR7) was chartered to carry out experimental electro-fishing for razor clams. The aim of the survey was to establish whether a commercial fishery with this gear was viable commercially and environmentally sustainable.

There was initially a period of gear design and construction which, together with some unavailability of either the vessel of Cefas staff, delayed the project until the winter of 2013/14. The weather was exceptionally poor and delayed the start of work such that funding had to be carried forward into the next financial year. Fieldwork commenced in May at a site off Southport, but despite the experimental gear deploying and working as envisaged, no razor clams were caught.

It was decided that a new fishing area should be tried and at the suggestion of the skipper, a diving company was engaged to survey positions where catches had been made previously. One position was found to have a significant density of razor clams and this was chosen as a target for the next trip. Unfortunately this position was in too shallow water for *Harmoni *to reach and deploying the gear a short distance to seaward produced no catch. After further tows through the area which also proved barren, the project was abandoned.

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2019-10-29
• Access contraints: Not specified
• Harvest GUID: CEFASe64c8df1-96bd-4671-bb33-0caec45b93e2
• Extent: Latitude: 55.50° to 53.25°
• Extent: Longitude: -6.00° to -3.00°
• Dataset reference date: 2017-01-20 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2019-10-29 (revision)
• Dataset reference date: 2017-01-11 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) (originator, custodian, distributor, owner); Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) (owner)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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