FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Improving the interpretation of fishing effort and pressures in mixed fisheries using spatial overlap metrics BT AF Bourdaud, Pierre Travers-Trolet, Morgane Vermard, Youen Marchal, Paul AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:3;4:4; FF 1:PDG-RBE-HMMN-LRHBL;2:PDG-RBE-EMH;3:PDG-RBE-EMH;4:PDG-RBE-HMMN; C1 Ifremer Centre Manche Mer du Nord, 121237, 150 quai Gambetta, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France, 62321; IFREMER, F-62321 Boulogne-sur-Mer, cedex, France Ifremer Centre Atlantique, 70611, Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France Ifremer, Channel and North Sea Fisheries Research Unit, 150 Quai Gambetta, Boulogne sur mer, France, 62321, , ; C2 IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE SI BOULOGNE NANTES SE PDG-RBE-HMMN-LRHBL PDG-RBE-EMH PDG-RBE-HMMN IN WOS Ifremer UPR IF 2.849 TC 9 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00446/55747/57402.pdf LA English DT Article CR CGFS : CHANNEL GROUND FISH SURVEY AB Managing mixed fisheries requires understanding fishers’ behaviour to allow predicting future fisheries distribution and impact on marine ecosystems. A new approach was developed to compare fine scale fishing effort distribution of Eastern English Channel (EEC) bottom trawlers, to the monthly- and spatially-resolved abundance distributions of commercial species. First, the added-value of using species-specific spatial overlap metric to quantify effective fishing effort and improve the relationship between fishing effort and fishing mortality was assessed. Second, based on the Ideal Free Distribution (IFD) theory, the species-specific weights given by fishers to different species were estimated by maximizing the overlap between target species assemblage and effort distributions in October. At a seasonal scale our results emphasized the importance of cuttlefish and red mullet for the global distribution of EEC bottom trawlers. In October, cuttlefish and red mullet were clearly more determining fishers’ location choice than historically harvested species, and also than the overall expected revenue. This is likely due to external constraints such as low cod quota, causing IFD assumptions violated. This study evidenced the importance of getting good insights into spatio-temporal distributions of stocks and fleets to understand fishers’ behaviour and improve mixed fisheries management advice PY 2019 PD APR SO Canadian Journal Of Fisheries And Aquatic Sciences SN 0706-652X PU Canadian Science Publishing VL 76 IS 4 UT 000462361900008 BP 586 EP 596 DI 10.1139/cjfas-2017-0529 ID 55747 ER EF