The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction was recently featured in an August 27, 2011 editorial in the Boston Globe, “Saving Millions of Fish”. Fishermen and conservationists both want to avoid bycatch. The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction, based at the New England Aquarium, brings together fishermen and scientists to work together to find ways to […]
December 2021
Consortium's Work Featured in Popular Science | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Technical Modifications Help Reduce Bycatch How do we tackle the more than 7.5 million tons of bycatch that occurs each year? How do we prevent the Vaquita from joining the extinct Yangtze River dolphin? How can we ensure the survival of the small population of remaining North Atlantic right whale? The technical modifications to fishing […]
Large Whale Entanglement Dynamics Workshop | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Over 50 fishermen, whale scientists, fishing gear engineers, rope manufacturers, and marine wildlife disentanglement experts participated in a workshop to examine the dynamics of large whale entanglements in fishing gear. The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction organized this workshop to increase understanding about baleen whale entanglements and ultimately improve the evaluation methods for reducing their […]
Community Meetings with Lobstermen, Long Island, Maine | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
On Monday, June 27, I took the Casco Bay Ferry in Portland to Long Island Maine with Heather Tetreault and Sarah Paquette from the Maine Lobstermen’s Association and Kate Dawson from Maine Sea Grant to meet with local lobstermen and women as part of our project to document lobster fishing practices in Maine. We were […]
Bycatch Consortium Featured on Speak Up For Blue | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
I sat down to talk about the Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction’s work with Andrew Lewin, who founded Speak Up for Blue, a website dedicated to communicating about ocean conservation. Part 1 of 5: Part 2: Part 3: Part 4: Part 5: Check out Speak Up for Blue and Andrew’s interviews with other ocean conservation leaders.
Shark Behavioral Responses to Deterrents | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
Sharks are the main bycatch group for pelagic longline fisheries. Shark interactions with fisheries can have negative financial and safety consequences for fisheries and are destructive to shark populations. A product that could deter sharks from fisheries that has no negative effect on the target fish would benefit both fisheries and shark populations. Sharks, unlike […]
New York Times: “Fishing Gear is Altered to Ease Collateral Costs to Marine Life” | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch has been featured in the August 22, 2011 New York Times Science article, “Fishing Gear is Altered to Ease Collateral Costs to Marine Life”. “The seafood on your plate is not the only animal that gave its life to feed you,” is one of the messages from Tim Werner, […]
“Weak” Circle Hook Requirement Proposed in Hawaii | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
In July, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) posted the Draft False Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan, which proposes new regulations to protect false killer whales in Hawaii, which are currently being considered for listing as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. The Hawaiian false killer whale population has drastically declined over the last two […]