Effects of eliminating shallow hooks from tuna longline sets on target and non-target species in the Hawaii-based pelagic tuna fishery | Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction

Submitted by ezollett on January 7, 2009 – 11:40

Decreased catch of wahoo, dolphinfish, blue and striped marlin, and shortbill species, increased catch of sickle pomfret and opah, and did not affect catch of sharks and pelagic sting rays No differences in catches between experimental and control sets