Bycatch News

Story featured in the Boston Globe

See the coverage in the Boston Globe here.

The Consortium-sponsored research shows that reducing excess rope strength in fishing gear could cut North Atlantic right whale deaths from entanglements by 72 percent.

American Bird Conservancy has launched a website (fisheryandseabird.info) to assist fisheries evaluators and managers to better understand the potential seabirds affected by their fisheries and to reduce bycatch.

ICES Journal of Marine Science has published papers as part of a special section on marine mammal-longline depredation and bycatch

Study is part of a contribution to the Consortium's research into the potential of whale-safe hooks.

The Bycatch Consortium was featured in a June 2014 article in The Guardian, An unusual partnership works to make fishing more sustainable. 

The Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction has won the 2013 Katerva Ecosystem Conservation Award!

A collection of tweets from #SMM2013 about fisheries bycatch of marine mammals 

In October 2013, researchers and fishermen from the United States, Europe, South America, Australia, and the Indian Ocean came together to identify reseach priorities for marine mammal bycatch mitigation techniques in longline fisheries.