Bottom-set gillnet fisheries that target flounder in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina are responsible for incidentally taking juvenile sea turtles during the fall months. This is expecially problematic given that it is the State’s most valuable finfish fishery. The Division of Marine Fisheries has employed a variety of management tools to address this problem including: closed […]
June 2021
Increasing the Selectivity of the Stone Crab Menippe mercenaria Trap by the Addition of a Cull Ring | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Gandy, R.L., Crowley, C.E., Leone, E.H., and Crawford, C.R. North American Journal of Fisheries Management The experiment aimed to determine what size of cull ring would reduce the catch of pre-recruit stone crab (Menippe mercenaria) and other bycatch while maintaining legal-sized catch. Catch compositions of crabs from unmodified plastic commercial stone crab traps and traps […]
Global Assessment of Large Whale Entanglement and Bycatch Reduction in Fishing and Aquaculture Gear | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Sunday, May 22, 2016 to Thursday, May 26, 2016 PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – The persistent, ongoing problem of fishing lines and gear ensnarling whales and other marine mammals has been a major threat worldwide to their survival and recovery from life-threatening injuries for many years and without any definitive solution that is effective and practical for the […]
Performance of industry-developed escape gaps in Australian Portunus pelagicus traps | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Broadhurst, M.K., Millar, R.B., Hughes, B. M. Broadhurst, NSW Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries Conservation Technology Unit, P.O. Box 4321, Coffs Harbour, NSW 2450, Australia. Data was collected on the relative performance of single and multiple round, rectangular, and square escape gaps across three fishing operations. Compared to control traps, those with escape gaps maintained […]
Cumulative selectivity benefits of increasing mesh size and using escape gaps in Australian Portunus armatus traps | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Broadhurst, M.K., Smith, T.M., Millar, R.B., Hughes, B., Raoult, V., and Gaston, T.F. Fisheries Management and Ecology Timothy M. Smith, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Newcastle, 10 Chittaway Dr, Ourimbah, NSW 2258, Australia. Email: [email protected] The individual and cumulative effects of increasing mesh size and installing three escape gaps (36 × 120 […]