About the Authors

Juan Santos

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Santos, Bent Herrmann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

juan.santos@thuenen.de

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany

Bent Herrmann

Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Santos, Bent Herrmann

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Fishing Gear Technology, SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hirtshals, Denmark, Norwegian College of Fishery and Aquatic Science, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway

Daniel Stepputtis

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany

Claudia Günther

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Bente Limmer

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany

Bernd Mieske

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Baltic Sea Fisheries, Rostock, Germany

Sebastian Schultz

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

Thomas Neudecker

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

Axel Temming

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Marc Hufnagl

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Institute for Hydrobiology and Fisheries Sciences, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Eckhard Bethke

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

Gerd Kraus

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries, Hamburg, Germany

Competing Interests

SINTEFF Fisheries and Aquaculture provided support in the form of salary to BH but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.