Tuna fisheries have been identified as one of the major threats to populations of other
marine vertebrates, including sea turtles, sharks, seabirds and marine mammals. The …

Monitoring live and dead discarded catch contributes to effective fisheries management and
ecological and socioeconomic sustainability. We determined contemporary rates and levels …

Fishers, scientists, and resource managers have made substantial progress in reducing
bycatch of sea turtles, seabirds, and marine mammals through physical modifications to …

Abstract Australia's South East Fishery (SEF) is a complex multi-species, multi-gear fishery
which operates over a large area from shallow coastal waters to depths of over 1000 m. As …

Estimation of bycatch in any commercial fishery is a difficult task. At the level of an individual
trip, bycatch occurs sporadically over wide geographical ranges. Proper quantification …

Robert Gillett is a fisheries specialist based in Suva, Fiji. Gillett has been involved in a large
number of projects in the Pacific Islands, as well as in the Indian Ocean, and has carried out …

One of the greatest challenges before modern fisheries, in recent times, is to develop and
implement selective fishing, in order to minimize ecological and environmental impacts of …

The reduction of by-catch mortality is an objective of the ecosystem approach to fisheries
and a request made by consumers. Elasmobranchs, an important component of the French …

Abstract In New England waters, many fish stocks are in precipitous decline while others are
already at historically low levels. Bycatch and discard of non-target species is a major …

Fisheries observer programs represent the most reliable way to collect data on fisheries
bycatch. However, their limited coverage leads to important data gaps that preclude bycatch …