Ban Bycatch
Reducing bycatch - Sustainable Fisheries Partnership
SFP is working to reduce the bycatch of endangered, threatened, and protected species in marine fisheries.
Bycatch and Discards Themed Set | ICES Journal of Marine Science
Macdonald, Paul et al. The short term impact of implementing catch quotas and a discard ban on English North Sea otter trawlers. Condie, Harriet et al. Using ...
Global Ban on Driftnets - Greenpeace USA
Bye Bye to Bycatch. Many fisheries catch fish other than the ones that they target; these unwanted fish are referred to as bycatch. Often, these fish are ...
Bycatch | Description, Statistics, Solutions, & Facts - Britannica
Bycatch, term for any fish, mammal, bird, or other animal or group of animals captured unintentionally by the commercial fishing industry.
Federal efforts to monitor and reduce the unintentional catch or other harm to marine species, also called bycatch, in US fisheries are lacking.
Information About Sea Turtles: Threats from Commercial Trawl Fishing
Beyond U.S. waters, there is no force of law to initiate and support bycatch reduction programs. ... ban on foreign-caught tuna caught by setting on and ...
Guidelines to prevent and reduce bycatch of marine mammals in ...
Despite significant progress in places where capture fisheries management is implemented, the continued prevalence of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) ...
A large illegal drift net caught on some obstruction on the sea floor. © Jane Dermer.
Trawls are banned in some areas with high vulnerability of endangered species, but are still used and destroying the ocean floor. Screen Shot ...
Bycatch and Overfishing, An Overview - Shark Allies
Mega-sized trawling nets can catch more than 500 tons of fish in one pass. Weak regulations, rampant illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) ...
France's Bay of Biscay Fishing Ban: Was It Worth the Controversy?
Why Did France Introduce a One-Month Ban on Commercial Fishing in the Bay of Biscay? · Bycatch: The First Threat to Dolphin Populations in the ...
Bycatch in drift gillnet fisheries: A sink for Indian Ocean cetaceans
In 1992, the UN banned the use of large-scale pelagic driftnets on the high seas (UNGA Resolution 46/215). Three decades later, however, ...
Influencing International Agreements WWF is a member of the OECD Ministerial Task Force on Illegal,. Unregulated, and Unreported (IUU) Fishing, which, by.
The Conseil d'État's urgent applications judge revokes exemptions ...
The Conseil d'État today found that these exemptions are too broad for the fishing ban to have sufficient impact on bycatch, and to have any ...
Proposed Legislation Seeks to Curb Bycatch in Gillnet Fishery
“Californians have already said they don't want these nets off our shores, having voted to ban them more than 30 years ago. We commend ...
Discarding in fisheries - European Commission
Discarding is a term specifically used for catches of species which are not kept, but returned to the sea. The EU has taken action to put an end to this ...
Bycatch 101: A Global Threat to the Ocean
Experts in marine policy and conservation define any species unintentionally caught in fishing gear as bycatch. Examples include other species ...
Bycatch and Bycatch Reduction Devices - South Carolina Aquarium
Bycatch can include species that are not eaten and therefore are not marketable, incorrect size of the targeted species, or banned or endangered species, like ...
EU judges drive a trawler through the EU's legal ban on overfishing
But the Court has stopped short of applying the rule that fishing opportunities may not be allocated above scientific advice to 'bycatch stocks' ...
Bycatch from Commercial Trawlers Hurts Native Communities and ...
... Ban. PAUSE. About · About Us · Our Board and Leadership · Inclusivity at ... bycatch octopus and taking in thousands of pounds of halibut bycatch.