Short-term post-release mortality of skates (family Rajidae) discarded in a western North Atlantic commercial otter trawl fishery

Agriculture & Biology

• Rajidae 100%
• trawl nets 87%
• fisheries 70%
• Leucoraja erinacea 26%
• Amblyraja 15%
• Leucoraja 15%
• Amblyraja radiata 14%
• Gulf of Maine 12%
• aquacultural and fisheries equipment 11%
• fishing boats 11%
• winter 10%
• duration 10%
• markets 5%
• biomass 4%
• gender 4%
• fish 4%
• animals 3%
• temperature 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• fishery 59%
• mortality 55%
• family 52%
• fishing mortality 18%
• fishing gear 18%
• winter 17%
• accounting 15%
• temperature change 14%
• tolerance 13%
• logistics 12%
• gulf 10%
• market 10%
• animal 9%
• biomass 8%
• fish 8%
• modeling 6%