The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction has won the 2013 Katerva Ecosystem Conservation Award! The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction has won the 2013 Katerva Ecosystem Conservation Award! The Katerva award is hailed as “the Nobel Prize of Sustainability.” The Katerva Award, now in its third year, draws upon a network of experts from science, […]
April 2014
Katerva 2013 People's Choice Award | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Submitted by Kate McClellan on March 25, 2014 – 09:40 The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction has won the 2013 Katerva Ecosystem Conservation Award! The Katerva award is hailed as “the Nobel Prize of Sustainability.” The Katerva Award, now in its third year, draws upon a network of experts from science, business, academia, finance, and government […]
Society of Marine Mammology Symposium 2013 | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Submitted by Kate McClellan on January 21, 2014 – 12:11 The 20th Biennial Conference on Marine Mammals was held at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand from December 9 to 13, 2013. Over 1000 scientists came together from around the world for 357 talks and about 400 posters about marine mammals. This year’s theme was “Marine […]
International Marine Mammal – Longline Bycatch Mitigation Workshop | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Submitted by Kate McClellan on November 19, 2013 – 17:12 The workshop covered topics such as time-area closures, as well as several methods under evaluation in different parts of the world for reducing the bycatch and subsequent mortality of odontocetes in longline gear, including acoustic deterrents, weak hooks, and net sleeves.Many questions remain in understanding the […]
Leatherback Turtle | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Species: Photo: Mass DMF, taken under NOAA 50 CFR 222.310 with authorization of the ESA Distribution: Circumglobal in tropical to sub-polar waters Bycatch Threat: Longlines, gillnets, trawls, pot/traps IUCN Status: The worldwide decline in leatherback turtles has been caused, in part, by bycatch in fisheries. Leatherback turtles most often entangled or hooked externally in pelagic […]