After monitoring 25 trawl fisheries, the analysis attributed 44,000 seabird deaths to bycatch — the unintentional capture from an active net — from cable strikes and net captures. "This is an ...

For example, seabird tracking data combined with spatial fishing activity data, through a collaboration with Global Fishing Watch, has been used to identify where seabirds encounter fisheries and ...

The mitigation measures developed in the South Georgia fishery have subsequently been adopted in other CCAMLR fisheries and have helped guide global best practice in addressing seabird bycatch.

Since 2001, Scientists from the Fisheries Department have been uniting efforts to monitor seabird interactions, develop and test bycatch mitigation measures, and monitor their implementation.

Sarah’s current research examines seabird distributions in the Southern Ocean ... and how management interventions such as increased regulation of fisheries bycatch can support recovery of threatened ...

Meanwhile the trawling industry continues to be allowed to kill every single fish, mammal or bird caught in their nets, discard the unwanted bycatch & operate under the honor system to report ...

From 2017 to 2023, there were 6,100 annual dolphin bycatch deaths in the Bay of Biscay, ORCA reported via PELAGIS, a marine mammal and seabird watchdog. From December 2023 to March 2024 ...