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
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Non-target benthic invertebrates are caught as bycatch in huge volumes, but precise numbers are not available.