Ecological importance of the survival of the discarded crustaceans to reach good levels of conservation of the Essential Fish Habitat

Póster presentado en The Crustacean Society Mid-Year Meeting, celebrada en Barcelona, España, del 19 al 22 de junio de 2017.-- 1 page, 1 figureThe EU Common Fishery Policy through the Landing Obligation attempts to discourage the release of potentially dead and dying animals back to the sea from commercial fishing. An important part of the discarded biomass in the trawl fishery are species with low or no economic value but with high key ecological role, such as crustaceans. There is very little information on survival discarded crustaceans. Survival measures by direct recovery of discarded tagged crustaceans are not effective in Mediterranean fishery. Alternative studies such as Semi-Quantitative Analysis (SQA) obtained on board prior to discarding can be considered as good proxies to estimate post-release mortalityMINOUW PROJECT Nº 634495. EC. REA; VIBAM Project B:SM Zoo-BarcelonaPeer reviewe