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Glenn Skinner, a commercial fisherman and the executive director of the North Carolina Fisheries Association, explained ...
The massive trawl bycatch of species on which so many Alaskans depend is not an unavoidable consequence of trawling. It's bad management by design. It's time for Alaskans to put and end to it.
As well as threatening fish stocks, a recent paper Mayorga co-authored studied the movements of over 20,000 bottom trawling vessels worldwide and found that by dredging the carbon-rich sediment on ...
She asked the council to put an end to bycatch in the industrial commercial trawl fleet. “We’re not policy experts,” Peltola said, “We’re not scientists. We’re not career people.
The Bycatch Reduction and Mitigation Act would fund the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program up to $7.5 million more than it received in 2023.
The science is clear: shrimp trawl bycatch kills large numbers of non-target species and is a significant problem that must be addressed. North Carolina is the only state on the east coast that ...
The issue of king salmon bycatch in Gulf of Alaska trawl fisheries is one that continues to incite debate, and for the time being, it looks like there are no easy answers to the persistent problem.
Study commissioned by lawmakers is silent on whether the state should ban shrimp trawling. But it urges changes in how North ...
Bayes said he believes trawling impacts on snow crabs are not being fully investigated due to conflicts of interest within the NPFMC, the group responsible for setting trawl catch and bycatch limits.
The global conservation of marine life requires a moratorium on the mass killing caused by trawling. It accounts for half of the world’s bycatch, but contributes to less than 20% of fish production.
Fisheries managers, biologists say snow crab’s decline from climate change. Fishers, experts blame fishing practices like trawling bycatch.