Theme Session C – Managing fisheries bycatch of threatened species

Book of abstracts of theme session C:

Managing fisheries bycatch of threatened species​

Conveners: Eric Gilman (USA), Milani Chaloupka (Australia), Petri Suuronen (Finland)

• CM 15: Criteria for evaluating alternative management strategies for fisheries bycatch of threatened species
• CM 19: One study is not enough — Bayesian meta-synthesis of ocean-specific shark bycatch mortality rates
• CM 61: Modernizing historic fishery effort distribution data to advise risk reduction for the North Atlantic right whale
• CM 70: Post-release survival of mobulid rays in purse seine fisheries
• CM 93: The potential of artificial intelligence to manage and reduce bycatch
• CM 98: Finding our way through the forest: using machine learning to improve catch estimation
• CM 104: Assessing selectivity and bycatch of endangered, threatened and protected species in the trolling and pole-and-line artisanal tuna fisheries
• CM 139: Spatial overlap of threatened groundfish with commercial fisheries highlights conservation priority areas in Eastern Canad
• CM 147: Cooperative development and adoption of bycatch release devices for vulnerable elasmobranch species with the Spanish tropical tuna purse seine fleet
• CM 154: The effects of data class and assessment frequency on Management Procedure performance: the case of NE Porbeagle
• CM 168: No reduction in bycatch rates of seabirds observed in bottom set gillnets equipped with LED lights
• CM 170: How Shark Management Performance is Affected by Bycatch Indices: the effects of non-linear relationships between bycatch per unit effort and abundance on the CITES listed NE Porbeagle Sharks
• CM 212: Potentialities of incentive-based approaches to reduce marine mammal bycatch
• CM 216: Can pearls protect porpoises? Application of acoustic reflectors in gillnets to reduce bycatch of harbour porpoises and other odontocetes while keeping fish catches high
• CM 229: Advanced, spatially based and real-time, software solutions for fisheries management
• CM 234: Vulnerability of skates bycaught in the demersal longline fishery in the French exclusive economic zones of Kerguelen and Crozet (Southern Ocean)
• CM 235: A probabilistic time geographic approach to quantifying bycatch risk of seabirds
• CM 258: Catch and bycatch in the tangle net fishery for spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas) off the south west coast of Ireland
• CM 260: Reducing seabird bycatch from gillnets in the Baltic Sea: a toolbox approach
• CM 280: Bio-inspired acoustic beacons to limit fishery by-catch of common dolphins Delphinus delphis
• CM 284: BEAM me up! Developing a Bycatch Evaluation and Assessment Matrix to support bycatch advice for sensitive species
• CM 286: Multifaceted effects of hook and bait types on target/non-target species for pelagic longline fisheries and consideration for bycatch management
• CM 290: Projecting the future distribution of target and bycatch species in the California Current System
• CM 294: Mitigating harmful interactions between the Baltic grey seal and fisheries
• CM 303: Additional weight to mitigate seabird bycatch in the Mediterranean: A pilot study in small-scale demersal longliners
• CM 304: Simulations for Characterising Optimal moniToring Implementations to inform the BEAM monitoring advice framework
• CM 314: Accidental bycatch of birds and seals in passive commercial fishing gear of Estonian coastal fishery
• CM 318: Long-term study evaluating factors affecting bycatch of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) and harbour seal (Phoca vitulina), including pinger effectiveness, in Swedish gillnet fisheries
• CM 327: The impact of commercial fisheries on tope shark (Galeorhinus galeus) in the northeast Atlantic
• CM 340: That’s all we Know: Inferring the status of threatened deep-water shark Dalatias licha based on an integrated assessment
• CM 344: Statistical analysis of the cetacean bycatch monitoring programme on board the Spanish set gillnet and bottom pair trawl fleets in the Bay of Biscay
• CM 351: Are fishers’ views of bycatch likely to influence their uptake of appropriate mitigation actions to avoid it?
• CM 357: Spatio-temporal relative risk of bycatch for four protected cetacean species commonly found in the Irish EEZ
• CM 358: Common dolphin bycatch in bottom trawling: the role of the catch composition
• CM 360: Exploring potential dynamic time-area closures to reduce silky shark bycatch in the European tropical tuna purse seine fishery operating in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean
• CM 361: Deterrent devices reduce bycatch of cetaceans in the Portuguese sardine purse seine fishery
• CM 374: One to rule them all…: Using multispecies fish pots to reduce the bycatch of marine mammals and seabirds
• CM 377: Exploitation and conservation status of Rajiformes species in the Western Mediterranean
• CM 380: Mobile electronic monitoring for fisheries management and research: HafsAuga mobileEM
• CM 413: Smartrawl: a vision for sustainable fishing and an end to trawl bycatch
• CM 420: Monitoring bycatches of mammals and birds in small-scale Swedish gillnet fisheries
• CM 426: Towards automated bycatch detection in Electronic Monitoring data: a case study on small-scale fisheries and porpoises bycatch in gillnets
• CM 443: Building a comprehensive pipeline to estimate bycatch among fleets: a case study in the Bay of Biscay common dolphins (Delphinus delphis)
• CM 489: Initiatives to investigate and improve bycatch data from cetacean strandings
• CM 508: Bycatch of anadromous clupeid fish at sea in the North and Western Iberian Peninsula region: insights into stock mixing at sea and conservation implications
• CM 517: Using species-specific gear modifications to reduce discards in trammel net fisheries
• CM 536: Assessing bycatch of the European shag (Gulosus aristotelis) by fishing activities in the Basque coast (Bay of Biscay)
• CM 542: Drivers of the distribution of two demersal batoids in the Balearic Islands (western Mediterranean) during the last two decades
• CM 545: By-catch monitoring methods for small, coastal fisheries boats. Lesson from the Szczecin Lagoon (Baltic Sea)
• CM 548: Blue shark by-catch in the south Adriatic Sea (central Mediterranean): catch rate, distribution and post release survival
• CM 558: Effectiveness assessment of cetacean bycatch reduction strategies and fishing technical measures in Iberian waters and Bay of Biscay
• CM 588: Quantifying and understanding cetacean bycatch
• CM 589: Bycatch mitigation measures to reduce the impact of fisheries-related mortality of cetaceans in north Spanish gillnet and purse seine fisheries
• CM 593: Northern Fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) bycatch in the North Atlantic
• CM 603: Vulnerability assessment of marine resources caught in industrial bottom trawl shrimp fishery in the Amazon Continental Shelf
• CM 618: Towards dynamic ocean management of prioritized species in tuna fisheries
• CM 635: Exploring fishers’ perceptions of gear pollution and bycatch and their willingness to engage with mitigation measures
• CM 640: Catchsnappers: making co-created bycatch registrations from smartphone apps sharable with global biodiversity databases
• CM 647: Modelling bycatch related factors: loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta; Cheloniidae) caught by trawlers in South Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean) case study
• CM 653: EASI-Fish – A Flexible Catch-Independent Assessment Tool for Quantifying the Vulnerability of Bycatch Species to the Cumulative Impacts of Fisheries in Data-Limited Settings
• CM 654: Patterns in the landed catches and determinants of catch composition in the South African inshore trawl fishery
• CM 658: The role of GFCM in minimizing and mitigating negative impacts of fisheries on marine biodiversity and ecosystems, especially in relation to vulnerable species