We compared the performance of two bird-scaring line designs (light lines with short
streamers vs. hybrid lines with a mix of long and short streamers) deployed in pairs with …

Discarded catch can account for a significant amount of fishing mortality and can be a major
source of uncertainty when calculating total removals for stock assessments and …

Abstract Walmsley, SA, Leslie, RW, and Sauer, WHH 2007. Managing South Africa's trawl
bycatch.–ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 405–412. Over the past few decades, it has …

The National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) launched its National Bycatch Strategy
(NBS) in March 2003 in response to the continued fisheries management challenge posed …

The reduction of discards in European fisheries has been identified as a specific objective of
the reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy. To reduce the uncertainty in catch data and …

A key objective of the Regional Tuna Tagging Project—Indian Ocean was to estimate tag-
shedding rates, Type-I (immediate tag shedding) and Type-II (long-term tag shedding). To …

Today, the tuna fishery of the western and central Pacific is one of the world's largest
fisheries. Annual catches exceed 2 millionmt—approximately 50% of the global tuna catch …

The unintentional capture of non-target species of fish, mammals, turtles and birds, and
invertebrates is a well-recognized feature of fisheries around the world. Usually termed …

Discarding at sea is a common practice in fisheries. Part of the catch is often discarded
because fish are too small to be marketed, or are bycatch. Regulations such as trip limits or …

The catch of non-target species or discarding of target species (bycatch) in commercial
fisheries can result in negative species level and ecosystem wide impacts as well as …