“…Instead, previous studies have used semi-quantitative indices of individual fish condition grouped in an index to evaluate whole or processed fish damage in fishing gears (Depestele, Desender, Benoît, & Polet, 2014;Digre, Hansen, & Erikson, 2010;Digre, Tveit, SolvangGarten, Eilertsen, & Aursand, 2016;Karlsen, Krag, Albertsen, & Frandsen, 2015;Olsen, Tobiassen, Akse, Evensen, & Midling, 2013;Rotabakk, Skipnes, Akse, & Birkeland, 2011). Most studies used hypothesis testing which does not allow for the estimation of the size of effects, unlike model-based methods such as cumulative link mixed modelling which is appropriate for ordinal multi-category responses.…”