Bycatch reduction and mitigation is a priority of the Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life at the New England Aquarium. In 2005, the Aquarium helped found the Consortium to reduce bycatch in threatened non-target animals. There are many other groups working on this as well. Some of these are listed here.
OTHER RESOURCES
- Birdlife International: information on mitigating seabird bycatch
- Bycatch Mitigation Information System (BMIS): information on bycatch in oceanic tuna and billfish fisheries
- Duke Marine Laboratory
- FAO’s Guidelines to reduce sea turtle bycatch and mortality in fishing operations
- FAO’s international guidelines on bycatch management and reduction of discards
- FisheryProgress.org: Fishery Improvement Project progress tracking database & tools
- GearingUp Initiative: information on gear modification trials to reduce bycatch in European fisheries
- The IUCN Cetacean Specialist Group: promotes and facilitates the conservation of cetaceans worldwide
- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: information on the status of animal species world-wide, including information about the bycatch threat to marine animals from the International Union for Conservation of Nature
- Massachusetts Lobstermen's Association: fishing industry group for Massachusetts' lobster fishermen
- NOAA: bycatch reduction engineering
- Ocean Modeling Forum: Lenfest Ocean Program's Marine Mammal Bycatch Working Group
- Ropeless Consortium: Overcoming Development, Regulatory and Funding Challenges for Rope-less Fishing in the U.S. and Canada
- Seabird Maps and Information for Fisheries: A web-based tool to identify the seabirds that may occur in a fishery area, and provide information about the seabirds useful to fishery evaluators, FIP managers, and anyone interested in reducing seabird bycatch
- University of New Hampshire School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering