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Commercial fishery characteristics 3
18 Due to their widespread geographic distribution, rattails have been reported as bycatch
in over 30 target fisheries over the last five fishing years.
19 The following table summarises the total reported catch distribution by FMA for the
fishing years 2002/03 – 2006/07. Note that no information is available for two saddle
grenadier and ridge-scaled grenadier.
Species
code
FMA1 FMA2 FMA3 FMA4 FMA5
RAT 132.02 t 417.67 t 10,742.99 t 5,844.67 t 1,104.75 t
WHX 25.02 t 0.32 t 0.00 t 0.03 t 0.00 t
CBO 0.34 t 0.00 t 0.00 t 0.00 t 0.02 t
Species
code
FMA6 FMA7 FMA8 FMA9 FMA10
RAT 2,136.79 t 1,343.70 t 114.30 t 40.15 t 0.83 t
WHX 0.00 t 0.87 t 0.00 t 5.93 t 0.00 t
CBO 0.00 t 0.00 t 0.00 t 0.00 t 0.00 t
20 The total reported catch for each of the cited fishing years is shown in the following
table. Note that no information is available for two saddle grenadier and ridge-scaled
grenadier.
Species
code
2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07
RAT 5,872.45 t 4,766.71 t 3,801.30 t 4,056.26 t 3,381.15 t
WHX 7.65 t 6.89 t 1.89 t 12.70 t 3.04 t
CBO 0.0 t 0.0 t 0.36 t 0.0 t 0.0 t
21 The percentage of total reported catch for each fishing year discarded or landed is
shown in the following table. Note that no information is available for two saddle
grenadier and ridge-scaled grenadier.
RAT (rattails generic)
Landed
state
2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07
Discarded 27% 24% 29% 29% 42%
Landed 73% 76% 71% 71% 57%
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Tables showing figures as percentages may not sum to 100% as percentages are rounded to the nearest whole
number.
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