Bycatch has become one of the most pressing fishery management issues of our time.
Bycatch, which is defined as the part of the capture that is discarded dead (Hall 1996) …

Bycatch in marine capture fisheries is the retained catch of nontargeted but commercially
viable species (referred to as “incidental catch”) plus all discards (Food and Agriculture …

Background 1. Bycatch, or the incidental catch of non-marketable, unwanted species taken
as a result of fishing operations has become a key issue in a number of fisheries worldwide …

Buybacks of fishing vessels, licenses or access and other use rights, and gear can be key
management tools to address overcapacity, overexploitation of fish stocks, and distributional …

Overexploitation of bycatch and target species in marine capture fisheries is the most
widespread and direct driver of change and loss of global marine biodiversity. Bycatch in …

Several tuna regional fisheries management organizations (t-RFMOs) have adopted
retention requirements for skipjack, bigeye and yellowfin tunas caught by purse seine …

Many of the world's marine fisheries have been poorly managed, or not managed at all.
Because of this lack of management, many of the stocks supporting these fisheries have …

Bycatch and mortality in fishing gear poses a conservation threat worldwide to many marine
species. Resource managers and conservation scientists face challenges in identifying …

In most fisheries, a number of species are unintentionally caught as bycatch while
attempting to catch the targeted species. While much of the bycatch problem is technological …

Fifty years ago, when the oceans' stocks of fish were thought to be inexhaustible, there were
no so-called 'by-catches'. Marine scientists studying fisheries were mostly limited to the …