Water resources policy and administrative management

The shrimp fishery of as fishing gear used as a trawl line with low selectivity, generating bycatch of other species. In some cases, bycatch species becomes greater than catching the target species constituting a global issue and creating a negative impact on populations of species stas Ndose Consider a threat to marine biodiversity. The objective of this project is to reduce the impact of artisanal fishery of shrimp (Pleoticus muelleri) on the accompanying wildlife ante, by design or construction and installation of a juvenile fish excluder device on networks of small-scale fishing local community of artisanal fishers in Punta del Diablo, Rocha, Uruguay.

Uruguay