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The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction was recently featured in an August 27, 2011 editorial in the Boston Globe, "Saving Millions of Fish".
Fishermen and conservationists both want to avoid bycatch. The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction, based at the New England Aquarium, brings together fishermen and scientists to work together to find ways to reduce bycatch without negatively impacting fisheries.
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The Australian sea lion population decreased due to harvests in the 17th and 18th centuries and traditional subsistence hunting by aborigines (Goldsworhty & Gales 2008).