ant

Study Type:

wild

Location:

Norway

Target catch:

Torsk (Brosme brosme), ling (Molva molva) and haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced incidental capture of seabirds, mostly fulmars

Effect on target catch:

Increased target catch rates

Article:

Review and evaluation of three mitigation measures-bird-scaring line, underwater setting and line shooter-to reduce seabird bycatch in the north Atlantic longline fishery

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Bird-scaring devices

Fishing Gear:

Hooks-and-Lines

Field Study 223

Study Type:

wild

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Deep sets

Fishing Gear:

Hooks-and-Lines

Nylon barium sulphate gillnet reduces porpoise and seabird mortality

Study Type:

wild

Location:

Canada

Target catch:

Multiple species

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced harbor porpoise bycatch

Effect on target catch:

No difference in catch

Article:

Nylon barium sulphate gillnet reduces porpoise and seabird mortality

Bycatch species:

Reduction technique:

Metal oxide/barium sulfate nets

Fishing Gear:

Gillnets

Field Study 216

Study Type:

wild

Location:

Falkan Islands

Target catch:

Swordfish

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced bycatch

Article:

Mitigation of seabird mortality on factory trawlers: trials of three devices to reduce warp cable strikes

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Bird-scaring devices

Fishing Gear:

Trawls

Study Type:

wild

Location:

New Zealand

Target catch:

Snapper

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced interactions

Effect on target catch:

Did not affect target catch

Article:

Reducing seabird bycatch in longline fisheries using a natural olfactory deterrent

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Liver oil

Fishing Gear:

Hooks-and-Lines

Study Type:

wild

Location:

Argentina

Target catch:

Hake

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced bycatch

Article:

Seabird mortality at trawler warp cables and a proposed mitigation measure: A case study in Golfo San Jorge, Patagonia, Argentina

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Bird-scaring devices

Fishing Gear:

Trawls

Study Type:

wild

Location:

New Zealand

Target catch:

Swordfish

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced bycatch

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Bird-scaring devices

Fishing Gear:

Trawls

Study Type:

wild

Location:

South Africa

Target catch:

Patagonian toothfish

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced bycatch

Article:

Reducing incidental mortality of seabirds with an underwater longline setting funnel

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Sub-surface sets

Fishing Gear:

Hooks-and-Lines

Study Type:

wild

Location:

Canada

Target catch:

Multiple species

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced bycatch

Effect on target catch:

Did not affect target catch

Article:

Nylon barium sulphate gillnet reduces porpoise and seabird mortality

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Metal oxide/barium sulfate nets

Fishing Gear:

Gillnets

Study Type:

wild

Location:

Washington State

Target catch:

Salmon

Effect on bycatch species:

Reduced bycatch but results varied by mesh size

Effect on target catch:

Effect on target catch varied by mesh size

Article:

Novel tools to reduce seabird bycatch in coastal gillnet fisheries

Bycatch species:

Seabirds

Reduction technique:

Opaque mesh netting

Fishing Gear:

Gillnets

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