Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries ResearchAgriculture and Fisheries Policy Area Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research ICES - SG Electra 21/04/2012 Work on effects of electric fishing on various marine organisms Marieke Desender & Maarten Soetaert 2 Introduction Pulse trawl brown shrimp Marieke Desender Evaluation of impact on marine biota Boundaries electrofishing Maarten Soetaert ILVO, an ocean of opportunity 3 State of the art Little known about impact of the Hovercran pulse Paper (1) : Sole, plaice, cod, dragonet, fivebeard rockling, pogge and armed bullhead Exposure: 10s Short-term effects (