Conditions of hooks after fishing operation used on bottom longlines in çanakkale region (northern aegean sea)

This study was conducted for determining the conditions of hooks after fishing operations in May 2011 - June 2012 on the coasts of Dardanelles Strait and Gallipoli Peninsula. Twenty longline operations with three replication were carried out between 5 and 500 m sea depth. Each longline consisted of 200 hooks. 60000 m of fish line was outspread with a total of 12000 hooks and a total of 1360 individuals were sampled. In the present study; after fishing operation, conditions of hooks were recorded according to status of hook (caught or broken off) and bait (with bait, without bait or bitten). Five different conditions of hooks were identified which are caught (8,62%), broken off (8,19%), with bait (28,71%), without bait (48,02%) and bitten (6,45%). Copyright © 2015 for the individual papers by the papers' authors.