Bycatch News

Black Sea Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena relicta) bycatch mitigation in the Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea
Final report
January 2020

Ocean Associates, Inc., in collaboration with the Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
and with funding from the National Marine Fisheries Service Office of International Affairs and
Seafood Inspection, is pleased to announce the availability of grants to support capacity building
for reducing marine mammal bycatch.

The Global Bycatch Exchange is pleased to announce the first round of grantees
for the Global Fund for Marine Mammal Bycatch Solutions

It is worth acknowledging the importamce of tuna to ourseleves and the world's oceans. Please read this OpEd and take to heart the need for conserving yje world's tuna stock,  including how fishing them endangers maby other marine wildlife in the form of bycatch.

https://www.newswise.com/articles/up-marine-expert-calls-for-protection-of-the-ocean-s-blue-giants 

Who better than the incomparable David Attenborough to explain why our Conssortium exists? Please see : 

https://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/2050515/breaking-david-attenborough-heartbreaking-update-end-of-life

We have known for years that whales, especially minke whales, get caught in fishing  Korean fishing nets.