Over the past decade there has been concern about the bycatch of seabirds, turtles and
sharks in fishing operations, in particular longline and trawl fisheries. The incidental mortality …

Mitigating the environmental impact of commercial fishing, by avoiding, minimizing and
compensating for adverse effects, is core business for fisheries management authorities …

Fisheries bycatch is driven by both ecological (eg, area, season) and social (eg, fisher
behavior) factors that are often difficult to disentangle. We demonstrate a method for …

Several high-profile examples of fisheries bycatch involving marine megafauna (eg dolphins
in tuna purse-seines, albatrosses in pelagic longlines, sea turtles in shrimp trawls) have …

The content of this report was originally prepared as three separate background papers
describing longline fisheries of the world, the nature and extent of incidental catch of …

In tropical prawn (shrimp) trawl fisheries it is daunting to assess the sustainability of bycatch
species because they are diverse and there is little historical and biological information for …

By‐catch and (or) discards in fisheries have been considered a serious problem and have
been unanimously criticized by politicians, environmental groups, the public and scientists …

Abstract Changes to fishing gear configurations have great potential to decrease fishing
interactions, minimize injury and reduce mortality for non-target species in commercial …

Since humans began fishing (at least 90 000 years ago), fishing technology has developed
with the objective of trying to catch the greatest quantities of fish possible, of an ever …

Unselective fishing catches non-target organisms as 'bycatch'—an issue of critical ocean
conservation and resource management concern. However, the situation is confused …