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CCAMLR process of risk assessment to minimise the effects of longline fishing mortality on seabirds

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posted on 2023-05-16, 22:45 authored by Waugh, SM, Geoffrey BakerGeoffrey Baker, Gales, R, Croxall, JP
We describe the process used in the fisheries management system of the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) to minimise seabird bycatch, and the risk-assessment methodology developed to assist this. We examine the progress of several Regional Fishery Management Organisations in taking steps to address seabird bycatch. CCAMLR has the most advanced system of management among the RFMOS covered in this review, and has made the most demonstrable progress in reducing seabird bycatch levels in its longline fisheries. A combination of proven mitigation measures, extensive monitoring by independent observers, annual expert review of seabird bycatch rates and evolving fishery and mitigation practices have been instrumental in reducing seabird bycatch in CCAMLR fisheries.

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Publication title

Marine Policy

Volume

32

Pagination

442-454

ISSN

0308-597X

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Elsevier Sci Ltd

Place of publication

Oxford, UK

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Socio-economic Objectives

Assessment and management of terrestrial ecosystems

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