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At-SeaTests of Releasing Sharks from the net of a Tuna Purse Seiner in the Atlantic Ocean
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2019
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Series: PIFSC Working Paper ; WP-19-001
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Description:The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) supports science-based initiatives for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of global tuna stocks. Bycatch reduction in large-scale tuna fisheries is a primary focus area implemented by the ISSF Bycatch Steering Committee. In order to define and test technical solutions to bycatch reduction, ISSF conducts at-sea research cruises to investigate potential mitigation measures centered on tropical tuna purse seine fisheries operating with floating objects. Seventeen research cruises have been conducted in the Western Indian Ocean, Eastern Pacific, Western and Central Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans since 2011 (Restrepo et al., 2018), mainly looking at ways to reduce catches of bigeye tuna and oceanic sharks.
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