Precision Seafood Harvesting (PSH): a new found plan to capture fish alive and even save species not intended for harvest, [i]s an environmental leap in the right direction unearthed from New Zealand. …. PSF was suggested several years ago by the Nelson Plant and Food Research group; however it took an investment of $ 52 million by three of New Zealand’s biggest seafood companies and the Government to develop the idea and win the skeptics over. Under confidential agreement until early February, dozens of people of the Sealord trawler Otakou worked to create the system which has been successfully trailed in commercial volumes. This newly implemented system allows small fish to escape unharmed and bigger fish to be brought on board trawlers alive and in top condition. They can then be sorted with bycatch species released. Rather than a traditional net, the new method uses a PCV liner that holds water within a tunnel, cutting stress, fatigue, and physical damage to fish in the harvesting process. Allowing small, unwanted fish to escape through the holes in the liner while underwater saves non-mature species and keeps alive those that are caught. “There would be more adequately sized fish in the ocean if they were not being caught accidentally as juveniles” said Barratt. Important for the industry as well, those fish that are caught would be of higher quality, and without blood stains and bruising, he said.
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Finally: Catching Fish Alive and Unharmed
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