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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, […]

The Global Bycatch Exchange is pleased to announce the first round of grantees for the Global Fund for Marine Mammal Bycatch Solutions    Grant Recipient: Green Balkans Project Location: Bulgaria Project Title: BLACK SEA HARBOUR PORPOISE (Phocoena phocoena relicta) BYCATCH MITIGATION IN THE BULGARIAN WATERS OF THE BLACK SEA Grant Award: $24,000 Summary of Project: Black Sea harbour porpoise (Phocoena […]

The grant application period is now closed. We are currently reviewing submissions and will announce the award winner(s) as soon as possible. Reports from past grantees can be accessed here: https://www.bycatch.org/content/funding-opportunities.

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Submitted by morgaac on September 25, 2015 – 13:48 93.3% of arrowtooth flounder, 99% of Dove sole, 96.9% of petrale sole, 96.9% of shortspine thronyhead and 90% of sablefish were retained 83.7% (weight) and 74.3% (number) of Pacific halibut were able to escape

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Curtis, K. A., Carrettab, J. V. Elsevier Publishing Elsevier B.V. Registered Office: Radarweg 29, 1043 NX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Regional Office [email protected] A software tool was developed to assess observer coverage with respect to several objectives for documenting or estimating rare-event bycatch. The ObsCovgTool predicts observer coverage performance for a given […]

A recent paper by William A. McLellan of UNC-Wilmington and colleagues examined the behavior of different longline hooks in the mouths of one small whale and two dolphin species. These are among many species of cetaceans that prey on the hooked bait and catch of longline fishermen. The consequence can be fatal to the marine […]

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 efficacy of these mitigation methods, and how practical they may […]

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 Mammal Conservation – Science Making a Difference” and […]