Ban Bycatch

Ban Bycatch: The United States Must Ban Seafood Imports ... - NRDC

The U.S. government will finally apply the Marine Mammal Protection Act's bycatch standards to all seafood imports on January 1, 2026. In ...

Ban Bycatch - The United States Must Ban Seafood Imports ... - NRDC

1 This bycatch is the predominant threat to global marine mammal populations, which are already facing serious and growing pressures from the ...

Understanding Bycatch - NOAA Fisheries

Fishing operations sometimes result in “bycatch” of non-target species. Learn how NOAA Fisheries is working with partners to reduce bycatch.

Bycatch Standards Bypass Foreign Fisheries - Animal Welfare Institute

To highlight this discrepancy, AWI and partner organizations produced Ban Bycatch: The United States Must Ban Seafood from Countries Failing to Protect Marine ...

U.S. Must Ban Seafood From 11 Nations Over Whale, Dolphin Deaths

Today's report, “Ban Bycatch: The United States Must Ban Seafood Imports From Countries Failing to Protect Marine Mammals,” is jointly ...

What is Bycatch? Understanding and Preventing Fishing Bycatch

Wherever there is fishing, there is bycatch—the incidental capture of non-target species such as dolphins, marine turtles and seabirds.

Peltola Introduces Pair of Fish Bills to Restrict Bottom Trawling ...

The Bycatch Reduction and Mitigation Act supports Alaskan fishermen working to reduce bycatch by: ... Peltola Pressure Helps Secure Ban on ...

National Bycatch Reduction Strategy - NOAA Fisheries

For the purposes of this Strategy, reducing bycatch includes efforts to minimize the amount of bycatch, as well as minimize the mortality, ...

Bycatch - Wikipedia

Bycatch (or by-catch), in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species or sizes ...

Conservation groups call on US to ban foreign seafood over whale ...

Conservation groups want NOAA Fisheries to ban imports from foreign fisheries that are not adequately working to prevent marine mammal bycatch.

Limit bycatch | Seafood basics

Some fisheries simply use poles and lines to catch fish, greatly reducing the risk of bycatch. With this fishing technique, fishermen catch one fish at a time ...

Lawsuit Seeks to Protect Marine Mammals From Foreign Fishing ...

Congress enacted the law in 1972 and included provisions about protecting marine mammals from bycatch and banning seafood imports from ...

New Bills Aim to Protect Ocean Habitats and Reduce Bycatch Due to ...

The Bottom Trawl Clarity Act calls on federal fishery managers to designate “Bottom Trawl Zones” open to trawling while protecting deep-sea ...

What Is Bycatch, Why Is It a Problem, and Is It Legal?

Another important way to mitigate bycatch is to ban or regulate fishing in areas where levels of bycatch are high. When fisheries are ...

NOAA Fisheries denies request for stricter limits on Chinook bycatch

... ban on Chinook bycatch in the large, trawl fishery. NOAA regulators said in the statement that the “petition did not meet criteria necessary ...

What is bycatch & why is it so harmful? | IFAW

Bycatch has also had a severe impact on vaquitas, a critically endangered species of porpoise. Illegal fishing has caused the current vaquita ...

What is bycatch and how can it be managed

What is Bycatch? Bycatch (or unwanted catch) is fish or other marine species caught unintentionally while trying to catch another type of fish.

Bycatch - International Whaling Commission

Bycatch is a global conservation and fisheries management issue. It is now seen as by far the single most serious, direct threat to cetaceans.

Federal Fisheries Management: Efforts to Reduce and Monitor ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service tries to minimize bycatch—marine life unintentionally caught or harmed by fishing.

Marine Mammal Bycatch

understanding the impact of bycatch on species and community dynamics;; developing solutions to reduce bycatch and bycatch mortality; and; managing fisheries ...