State and federal governments are looking at opening fishing areas closed to fishing because of high entanglement risk to North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis). See
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Featured Bycatch Species
Chatham albatross are caught in a variety of longline and trawl fisheries in the southeast Pacific Ocean. Known mortality from bycatch has been observed in ling demersal and tuna pelagic longline