PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD DAY
( 11th FEB. 2002)

(On-Sea Demonstration of Comparative use of TED in trawl fishing)
OF

Workshop-cum-Demonstration on Turtle Excluder Device
For Trawl Owners and Operators of Orissa coast

Jointly organized by Directorate of Fisheries, Orissa and Project Swarajya
Under UNDP-GOI Sea Turtle Project
AT PARADIP DURING 9-12 FEBRUARY 2002
OBSERVATION OF SEA DEMONSTRATION OF TED ON DT.11/02/2002

Sea Demonstration of T.E.D. was conducted on Dt.11.02.2002 in four Trawlers fitted with and without T.E.D.. Inorder to motivate and giving their(Trawler Owners) personal views, the official of the Institute who designed the T.E.D. model to suit the coastal waters of India and the media persons were present at the time of demonstration in order to convince and interacting themselves to show the benefits and loss for long term Instainability of Fisheries and conservation of the Marine Eco-System. For the purpose, the following no. of personnels from the different sector were involved.

Different Sector      No. of Persons.
1.      Deptt. of Fisheries 10
2. Deptt. of Forest 03
3. Wild Life Institute of India 03
4. Ministry of Agriculture, Govt. of India. 01
5. C.I.F.T Govt. of India 01
6. F.S.I., Govt. of India. 02
7. Media Persons. 09
8. Trawler Owners. 06
9. N.G.Os. 04
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Total : 38

The trawling operation was conducted at a distance of 12-13 Kms from the Shore at an average depth of 15 Fathom. The details of observation at the end of the page.

Form the observation, it reveals that the percentage of fish loss varies from 1.96 to 14.83 with an average of 7.2% and smooth release of turtle in now of the 4 trial made. Hence , it is placed for discussion between the resource persons and users.

Table showing details of experimental trawling with and without TED off Paradip coast (It's reported by the Officers of Fisheries Directorate, Orissa)
PERFORMA
   First Haul Second Haul
Name of the Fishing Vessel Condition of Fishing Weight of  Fish in main code end. Weight of  Fish in extra code end. % of Fish escaped through TED No. of Turtles escaped through TED Condition of fishing Weight of fish in main cod end. Wight of fish in extra cod end. % fish escaped through TED.
M.V.TELABON With TED fitted with extra cod end Kg 41.7 Kg 2.6 5.87% Nil Fitted with TED without extra cod end Kg.23.0 Nil Nil
M.V DEVAPUJYA With TED fitted with extra cod end Kg 5.0 Kg 0.1 1.96% Nil Fitted with TED with extra cod end Kg 75.0 Kg3.0 3.35%
M.V DEVASABYA Without TED Kg 51.6 Nil Nil Nil Without TED Kg131.8 Nil Nil
M.V CROWN Without TED Kg 54.8 Nil Nil Nil With TED and extra cod end Kg.40.2 Kg 7.0 14.83%
Lable showing details of the experimental trawling with and without TED off Paradip coast (As reported by Dr. Raghu Prakash R., Scientist CIFT)
   First Haul Second Haul
Fishing Vessel Condition of Fishing Weight of  Fish in main code end (kg.) Weight of fish in the exit hole cover % of fish escaped through the exit cover No.of Turtles escaped Condition of fishing Weight of fish in the main cod end Weight of fish in the exit hole cover % of fish escaped through the exit cover No. of Turtles escaped Remarks
M.V.TELABON Trawl fitted with TED with extra cod end 41.7 2.6 5.87% Nil Trawl fitted with TED with no extra cod end 23.3 Nil Nil Nil In the 2nd haul escapement could not be calculated as there was no extra cod
M.V DEBAPUJYA With TED fitted with extra cod end 5.0 0.1 1.96% Nil Fitted with TED with extra cod end 75 3.0 3.85% One Catch loss 2.4%
M.V DEVASABYA Without TED 5.6 Nil Nil Nil Without TED 131.8 Nil Nil Nil Cannot estimate catch loss as there was no extra cod end attached
M.V CROWN Without TED 54.4 Nil Nil Nil Trawl fitted with TED &with extra cod end 40.2 7.0 14.83% Nil The accelerator funnel and exit hole flap were out.