Next step for reducing seabird bycatch

Notes that Yeh et al. (2013) demonstrate another useful approach based on observer data, which can be applied to regions other than the study area and coordinated with data from different fishing fleets and areas. The author suggests that to solve the problem of low availability of data in the regional level, international cooperation is needed. It might be advisable to have small research groups on seabird research within the scientific committees of the RFMOs, with initial members from scientists of members with country-based bycatch data in hand, and then gradually expanding to larger groups. Such research, in a globally coherent framework, may improve the effectiveness of the existing mitigation measures.