The effect of hook/bait size and angling technique on the hooking location and the catch of recreationally caught black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri Grixti, Daniel, Conron, Simon and Jones, Paul 2007, The effect of hook/bait size and angling technique on the hooking location and the catch of recreationally caught black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri, Fisheries research, vol. 84, no. 3, pp. 338-344, doi: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.11.039. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title The effect of hook/bait size and angling technique on the hooking location and the catch of recreationally caught black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri Formatted title Effect of hook/bait size and angling technique on the hooking location and the catch of recreationally caught black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri Author(s) Grixti, Daniel Conron, Simon Jones, Paul orcid.org/0000-0002-5028-5775 Journal name Fisheries research Volume number 84 Issue number 3 Start page 338 End page 344 Publisher Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. Place of publication Amsterdam, Netherlands Publication date 2007-05 ISSN 0165-7836 1872-6763 Keyword(s) hooking location selectivity Acanthopagrus butcheri post-release survival angling hook Summary The black bream Acanthopagrus butcheri recreational fishery is the largest estuarine fishery in Victoria. This fishery is managed through legal-minimum length and daily bag limits. The success of this management strategy requires a high survival rate for released fish. Deep-hooking is known to reduce the chance of fish survival after recreational capture and release. This study investigated the potential to reduce deep-hooking and the number of under-size A. butcheri caught by varying angling gear and techniques. Three sizes of long shank hook (small [size 8], medium [size 4] and large [size 1/0]) and two angling techniques (slack line and tight line) were tested for their deep-hooking rates and selectivity characteristics. Increasing the hook size from small to large decreased the likelihood of deep-hooking by 6.6 times (95% CI 2.3–16.3 times). Fishing with a tight line instead of a slack line decreased the chance of deep-hooking by almost 100% (95% CI 0.8–3.6). Fishing with a large hook instead of a small hook significantly (F = 6.71, df = 2, P = <0.001) increased the mean A. butcheri length, although this mean size increase was less than 1 cm. This study was able to identify angling gear and angling technique manipulations that reduced the rate of deep-hooking when targeting A. butcheri in Victorian estuaries. Language eng DOI 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.11.039 Field of Research 070499 Fisheries Sciences not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Elsevier B.V Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30007824 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 08 Aug 2022, 23:38:48 EST Fri, 06 Feb 2015, 10:18:18 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 41 times in TR Web of Science Cited 45 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1103 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 29 Sep 2008, 08:56:31 EST