Determination of catch composition of feathered European pilchard – Big-scale Sand Smelt handline used in ？anakkale Region

This study was made in the ？anakkale coast between April 2015 and March 2018. Number 11, 12, 13, 14 hooks were used in the feathered handline. The colors are white, gray, yellow, green, orange and mixed color used as feather color. Leaders with 10 cm length and 0.10 mm diameter which were equipped with hooks were knotted to 0.15 mm diameter mainline and distance between leaders were 15 cm. According sea stream, 100-500 gr weight is used. The target species Atherina boyeri (Risso, 1810) (Big-scale sand smelt) (414; 70.29%) are the most commonly caught species. The other target species, Sardina pilchardus (Walbaum, 1792) (European pilchard), was caught 13 individuals (2.21%). As the non-target species, the most caught species was Scomber japonicus (Houttuyn, 1782) (Chub mackerel )(59) (10.02%). 427 target species (72.5%) and 162 non-target species (27.5%) were caught in this target feathered handline. According to this study, number 12 hook has maximum catch rate (168 individuals) and number 14 has minimum catch rate (123 individuals). According to catch effect of feathers color, white color has maximum catch rate (200 individual) and green color has minimum catch rate (81 individuals)