Mesquita, CarlosDobby, HelenJones, CatherinePierce, Graham2024-11-132024-11-132024-06-01Mesquita, C, Dobby, H, Jones, C & Pierce, G 2024, 'Estimating fishing effort and LPUE for the Scottish Brown Crab (Cancer pagurus) trap fishery using VMS and observer data', Fisheries Research, vol. 274, 106974. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.1069740165-7836https://hdl.handle.net/2164/24618Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank the skippers and crew of the vessels participating in the study. We are grateful to Peter Gibson and John Clarke for helping collecting data in the observer trips and Adrian Weetman for his assistance in organizing the field work. We would like to Thank Rui Catarino and Neil Campbell for extracting the VMS data, and Rob Fryer for advising on the statistical methods., We would like to acknowledge the contribution of ICES Expert Group WGCRAB for providing valuable feedback on the methods used in this paper. Finally, the authors would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and comments which improved the clarity of the paper.151472629engSDG 3 - Good Health and Well-beingVMSfishing efforttrap creel fisheriesSpatial distributionbrown crabdata limitedQH301 BiologyAquatic ScienceSupplementary InformationQH301Journal article10.1016/j.fishres.2024.106974274