Integrated Bycatch Assessment & Management - avoiding unintended consequences

Blog on Safina Center website: http://safinacenter.org/2016/03/efforts-to-save-sea-turtles-may-kill-sharks/

Presentation at FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, IATTC Bycatch Working Group, NGO Tuna Forum and SFP/TNC bycatch workshop: CLICK HERE

Presentation at April 2018 Tuna Forum on integrated bycatch assessment and management to account for cross-taxa conflicts

May 2018 Workshop in Bangkok providing guidance to seafood supply chain companies on pelagic longline bycatch management

* Workshop program: https://tinyurl.com/bycatch-wkshp

* Presentation on integrated bycatch assessment and management to account for cross-taxa conflicts

Gilman, E., Chaloupka, M., Dagorn, L., Hall, M., Hobday, A., Musyl, M., Pitcher, T., Poisson, F., Restrepo, V., Suuronen, P. 2019. Robbing Peter to pay Paul: Replacing unintended cross-taxa conflicts with intentional tradeoffs by moving from piecemeal to integrated fisheries bycatch management. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries DOI: 10.1007/s11160-019-09547-1. DOWNLOAD

Gilman, E., Chaloupka, M., Bach, P., Fennell, H., Hall, M., Musyl, M., Piovano, S., Poisson., F, Song, L. 2020. Effect of pelagic longline bait type on species selectivity: A global synthesis of evidence. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries DOI: 10.1007/s11160-020-09612-0

Freely available online at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11160-020-09612-0

Press Release on managing longline bait type to mitigate capture of vulnerable bycatch species DOWNLOAD


Commercial viability of alternative designs placing pelagic longline branchline weights at the hook to reduce seabird bycatch

  • 2020 article in Endangered Species Research
  • Dataset