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In the U.S. West Coast groundfish bottom trawl fishery, Pacific halibut (Hippoglossus stenolepis) bycatch can impact some fishers’ ability to fully utilize their quota shares of groundfishes. this study, we compared catch efficiency for and four commercially important species between an illuminated non-illuminated trawl. The caught significantly fewer sablefish than For Dover sole (Microstomus ...