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
The main cause of the decline of loggerhead turtles, and the current primary threat to global populations is bycatch in longlines, gillnets, trawls, traps and pots, and dredges.