Considerable time and money are expended in the pursuit of catching fish with hooks (eg,
handlining, angling, longlining, trolling, drumlining) across the recreational, commercial and …

The Secretariat of the Pacific Community has been active in promoting fisheries
development in Pacific Island countries and territories for over 30 years. A particular area of …

Fishing by hook and line, including handlining, rod and reel fishing, jigging, trolling, and
longlining, is a method used all over the world with a very wide range of vessels, from small …

Technological developments were a major cause for the increased landings from capture
fisheries in the second half of the last century. The fishing vessels were made more …

Wild-capture fisheries help provide food security to billions of people, yet bycatch of non-
target species threatens ecosystem health and fishery sustainability. Appropriate monitoring …

With constant innovation to find more efficient ways to find, catch and process fish,
catchability in wild fisheries can increase. Catchability is a combination of resource …

Ghoti papers Ghoti aims to serve as a forum for stimulating and pertinent ideas. Ghoti
publishes succinct commentary and opinion that addresses important areas in fish and …

NOAA Fisheries is currently preparing a National Bycatch Report summarizing estimates of
discards, by species, which occurred in 2005 in all federally managed fisheries in the United …

Longline fisheries kill biologically significant numbers ofseabirds, resulting in global
population decreases. Off southern Africa efforts have been made to curb this problem in …

By-catch and tuna discards estimation and characteristics for the various species groups are
presented for the European purse seine tuna fishery (France and Spain) for the period 2003 …