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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
US law requires. Instead ... green cast to the package of MMPA-weakening amendments in Congress, any meaningful efforts to reduce bycatch disappeared. Our organizations have been in the forefront of efforts to protect the entire ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
Indeed, Mexico and other ETP fishing nations have plans to substantially increase their tuna ... potential. In this case, that species is the dolphins, and yet GreenpeaceUSA has endorsed shifting bycatch biomass grossly toward more dolphins. set sustainable catch quotas for tuna and require the closure ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - How Fish are Caught or Farmed
By sinking their longlines deeper, U.S. fishermen avoid the migratory paths of sea turtles. Other innovations to reduce bycatch include the use of circle hooks to ease the release and survivability of unwanted species and the deployment of longlines through a chute to reduce seabird interactions. Back to top Printable Fact Sheet Purse SeiningA purse seine is a large wall of netting ...
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NOAA Fisheries Feature
Plan (6/25/08) This rule, designed to rebuild overfished species of Atlantic sharks, should reduce bycatch through establishment of a shark research fishery, closing areas to bottom longline fishing, and ... councils and commissions. NOAA Fisheries relies on a diverse array of partnerships to help reduce fisheries bycatch, and this site contains links to some of our most prominent partners. Contact Us ...
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NOAA Fisheries Feature
It is a contentious issue, in part, because actions to reduce bycatch mortality typically change the distribution of the net benefits from the fisheries. Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Information Quality ...
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WWF - Marine Conservation
Yet it need not be this way. Find out how in our bycatch website Meet Stinky Destructive fishing has many critics, with the newest being an animated fish puppet ... about our exciting, collaborative work with fishers and partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to reduce bycatch of marine turtles and secure sustainable fisheries. Check out the website Sign up for email ...
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WWF - In partnership with other Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs)
To try to tackle the problem of bycatch mortality in the central and southern Atlantic, WWF -- together with IUCN, le Centre d'cologie ... it is hoped to identify areas of potential conflict with fisheries and design measures to reduce bycatch. This high-tech tracking system is expensive, and the partners therefore offer US$10, ...
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EJF: Impacts of bycatch
BRDs have been used very successfully to reduce bycatch in the cold-water shrimp fisheries of Canada, Iceland and Norway. Case study: Tuna ... off this coastline in the last five years. WPSI/Operation Kachhapa/WildAid Populations of many "bycatch" species have declined rapidly in areas where shrimp trawlers operate, including commercial and artisanal fish ...
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EJF: Why an International Plan of Action (IPOA) on bycatch reduction?
Stories Why an International Plan of Action (IPOA) on bycatch reduction? Many research institutions, NGOs, inter-governmental organisations and Governments around the world are doing important work to reduce bycatch. Some focus on the incidental capture of endangered/vulnerable species, others address the food security issues linked to high bycatch levels in the developing world. Others still work ...
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National Coalition for Marine Conservation -- dedicated exclusively to conserving ocean fish, preventing overfishing, reducing fish bycatch and protecting marine habitat
Marine Conservation (NCMC), based in Virginia, is the USA's oldest public advocacy group dedicated exclusively to conserving ocean fish and their environment. We work to prevent overfishing, reduce fish bycatch and protect marine habitat for fish such as swordfish, marlin, sharks, tuna, herring, striped bass and menhaden. Our mission is to build public awareness of the threats to our marine ...
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