4PLANET IMPACT / ISSUE
Bycatch
Fishing can unintentionally capture and kill non-target species including marine mammals, seabirds, sharks and turtles.
Why it matters
Bycatch risk is fishery-, gear-, species- and place-specific and requires direct monitoring or defensible estimates.
What the sources establish
FAO identifies bycatch and discards as a sustainability problem that can cause unnecessary mortality of non-target species and requires monitoring and management.
Source: https://www.fao.org/responsible-fishing/bycatch-and-discards/about/en/
Projects working on it
- California Bycatch Campaign — Oceana, California, United States
Organisations
Known and not established
- A documented interaction risk is not the same as observed mortality, a current rate, or a universal fishery effect.
- This issue record is source-grounded context, not proof that any particular project, action or intervention is effective.
Sources
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Approaches associated with this problem
No independently reviewed solution comparison is published for this problem.
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