DETERMINING OF OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS FOR TRAWL SYSTEM TAKING INTO ACCOUNT EXPERIMENTAL DATA ON SHAPE OF THE ROPE-NET SHELL OF MIDWATER TRAWLS

Calculating of horizontal opening for a trawl mouth using the mathematical model of midwater trawl system developed by V.I. Gabryuk gives the errors 25.4 and 32.9 %, on average, for the trawls RT 57/360 m and RT 80/396 m, respectively. The significant errors cause doubts about correctness of this model equations application for calculation of the catch zone that is necessary for assessment of abundance and biomass of marine biological resources. New empirical equations are proposed on the basis of experimental data on shape of the rope-net shell of a midwater trawl, which allow to calculate the horizontal opening for its certain sections. The errors of the horizontal opening calculation with these new equations are 13.7 and 6.1 %, on average, for the trawls RT 57/360 m and RT 80/396 m, respectively, that is satisfactory for using them for calculating operational parameters of a midwater trawl system. The operational parameters of the midwater trawls RT 57/360 m and RT 80/396 m are calculated using Baranov’s approach with these new empirical equations, and their good adequacy is shown in the experiment with hydroacoustic measurements of the trawls mouth horizontal opening and the distance between the trawl doors conducted aboard RV TINRO and RV Professor Kaganovsky in the Okhotsk Sea in 2012–2015.

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