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Disentangling mortality components (other mortality caused by predation and natural mortality) and fishing mortality imposed on each functional group by different fishery types in Lake Trichonis, 2019.
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Abstract: An Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) modeling approach was used to explore the ecological structure of the largest lake in Greece (Lake Trichonis). Until the mid-1990s, the lake was receiving a high level of pollution and the fishing pressure was intense, while since the early 2000s, fisheries and other human pressures gradually declined. Nowaday...
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... composition (%) of the catches per species and fishing gear are shown in Table 2. A. boyeri contributed 78% to the fisheries catches for all fisheries combined, while the other commercial fish species = 16% and discards = 12%, with most of the discards derived from encircled towed nets (Figure 3). ...
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... exploitation rate (fishing mortality/total mortality) imposed by the fisheries was high for A. boyeri, A. anguilla and C. carpio (Figure 3). Predation mortality due to high intraspecific competition was higher than 50% for the low functional groups (zooplankton and benthic invertebrates) and for T. hellenicus, C. gibelio and small benthic fish (Figure 3). ...
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... exploitation rate (fishing mortality/total mortality) imposed by the fisheries was high for A. boyeri, A. anguilla and C. carpio (Figure 3). Predation mortality due to high intraspecific competition was higher than 50% for the low functional groups (zooplankton and benthic invertebrates) and for T. hellenicus, C. gibelio and small benthic fish (Figure 3). Water 2021, 13, x ...
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... composition (%) of the catches per species and fishing gear are shown in Table 2. A. boyeri contributed 78% to the fisheries catches for all fisheries combined, while the other commercial fish species = 16% and discards = 12%, with most of the discards derived from encircled towed nets (Figure 3). ...
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... exploitation rate (fishing mortality/total mortality) imposed by the fisheries was high for A. boyeri, A. anguilla and C. carpio (Figure 3). Predation mortality due to high intraspecific competition was higher than 50% for the low functional groups (zooplankton and benthic invertebrates) and for T. hellenicus, C. gibelio and small benthic fish (Figure 3). ...
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... exploitation rate (fishing mortality/total mortality) imposed by the fisheries was high for A. boyeri, A. anguilla and C. carpio (Figure 3). Predation mortality due to high intraspecific competition was higher than 50% for the low functional groups (zooplankton and benthic invertebrates) and for T. hellenicus, C. gibelio and small benthic fish (Figure 3). Mixed trophic effects/impacts are depicted in Figure 4. ...
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