The catch composition of the bottom trawl in the Duzce province

This study was performed to identify the catch composition of the Düzce coast (south-western Black Sea) at depths of 30-110 meters by bottom trawl between September 2014 and August 2015. In this study, the numbers of fish species were 24 in autumn, 27 in winter, 22 in spring and 13 in summer. In the all species compositions of the Düzce coast, Merlangius merlangus was in the first row with 73.12% (1290.29 kg / km2), followed by Gobius spp. as second with 9.30% (164.04 kg / km2) and Mullus barbatus as third with 9.05% (159.61 kg / km2). The total of other 33 species correspond to 8.53% of total fish biomass. When seasonal distribution was examined, total catch of fish were 1038.54, 2552.37, 1068.72, 5132.96 kg/km2, of which economic (target) fish species (Merlangius merlangus) constitute 745.72, 1726.14, 724.58, 4910.15 kg/km2 in autumn, winter, spring and summer respectively. Single or sporadic captures were also recorded for Pomatomus saltatrix, Arnoglossus laterna, Spicara maena, Anguilla anguilla, Symphodus tinca, Chelidonichthys lucerna, Platichthys flesus, Squalus acanthias, Parablenniuis sanguinolentus, Acipenser stellatus, Spicara smaris, Trachurus trachurus, Hippocampus hippocampus and Serranus hepatus. Also in this study, red list status for 35 fish species belonging to 27 family in Düzce coasts were compared with the Red List (IUCN). As a result of this comparison, two species were determined as critically endangered (CR), five species as vulnerable (VU), 22 species as least concern (LC), four species as not evaluated (NE) and two species as data deficient (DD).