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Species
Technique/Category
2006
Melvin EF, Baker GB (2006) Summary report: seabird bycatch mitigation in pelagic longline fisheries workshop. In: Museum of Natural History, Royal Society Room, Hobart, Tasmania. Sea Grant Washington, Hobart Tasmania Australia, p 25
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Bait caster
Brickle curtain
Dyed bait
Hook Shielding Devices
Hookpod
Line shooter
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Side-setting
Streamer (tori) lines
Underwater setting techniques
2001
Melvin EF, Parrish JK, Dietrich KS, Hamel OS (2001) Solutions to seabird bycatch in Alaska’s demersal longline fisheries. Washington Sea Grant Program., Seattle, Washington
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Line shooter
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
Underwater setting techniques
Vessel-specific management
2019
Melvin EF, Dietrich KS, Suryan RM, Fitzgerald SM (2019) Lessons from seabird conservation in Alaskan longline fisheries. Conservation Biology cobi.13288. https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13288
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
Population Level Assessments
Abundance Indices
2014
Melvin EF, Guy TJ, Read LB (2014) Best practice seabird bycatch mitigation for pelagic longline fisheries targeting tuna and related species. Fisheries Research 149:5–18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2013.07.012
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Double-weight branchlines
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
2013
Melvin EF, Guy TJ, Read LB (2013) Reducing seabird bycatch in the South African joint venture tuna fishery using bird-scaring lines, branch line weighting and nighttime setting of hooks. Fisheries Research 147:72–82. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2013.04.015
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
2009
Melvin EF, Guy TJ, Rose B (2009) Branchline Weighting on Two Japanese Joint Venture Vessels Participating in the 2009 South African Tuna Fishery: A Preliminary Report
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads)
Streamer (tori) lines
2001
Melvin EF, Parrish JK (eds) (2001) Seabird bycatch: trends, roadblocks, and solutions. Proceedings of the Symposium 26-27 February 1999. University of Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks, Alaska
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GN
Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Dyed bait
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Pingers - acoustic alarms
Streamer (tori) lines
Underwater setting techniques
Visual alerts for gillnets - other
1999
Melvin EF, Parrish JK, Conquest LL (1999) Novel Tools to Reduce Seabird Bycatch in Coastal Gillnet Fisheries. Conservation Biology 13:1386–1397. https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.98426.x
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Gear configuration - other
Night / day setting
Pingers - acoustic alarms
Spatial & temporal measures
Visual alerts for gillnets - other
2023
Melvin EF, Wolfaardt A, Crawford R, et al (2023) Chapter 17 - Bycatch reduction. In: Young L, VanderWerf E (eds) Conservation of Marine Birds. Academic Press, pp 457–496
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GN
Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Hook Shielding Devices
Hookpod
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Spatial & temporal measures
Streamer (tori) lines
Underwater setting techniques
Management Categories
Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates
2011
Melvin E, Guy T (2011) A Draft Seabird Bycatch Conservation Measure for Tuna Commissions. ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group, Guayaquil, Equador
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
2011
Melvin E, Guy T, Sato N (2011) Preliminary Report of 2010 Weighted Branchline Trials in the Tuna Joint Venture Fishery in the South African EEZ. In: Fourth Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. ACAP, Guayaquil, Equador, p 18
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Double-weight branchlines
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
2023
Meyer S, Hickcox R (2023) MIT2022-04 Bait retention as a driver to mitigation use in the surface longline fishery. Proteus, Outram, New Zealand
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
Management Categories
Data Availability and Collection
Economic and Social Analysis
Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques
2023
Meyer S, McKenzie D (2023) Factors affecting protected species captures in domestic surface longline fisheries [+ summary & Recommendations to ACAP SBWG11]. In: ACAP - 11th Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. SBWG11 Doc 23, Edinburgh, UK
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Sea Turtles
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Night / day setting
Streamer (tori) lines
Vessel-specific management
Population Level Assessments
Abundance Indices
Risk Analysis - Open Category
2024
Monaghan E, Ravanello P, Ellis D, et al (2024) Fishing behaviour and environmental variability influence depredation of pelagic longline catch by toothed whales. Fisheries Research 273:106959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2024.106959
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Marine Mammals
Mitigation Techniques
Deep / shallow setting
Lightsticks / light attractors
Night / day setting
Spatial & temporal measures
Management Categories
E-monitoring
Economic and Social Analysis
Population Level Assessments
Risk Analysis - Open Category
1996
Moreno CA, Rubilar PS, Marschoff E, Benzaquen L (1996) Factors Affecting the Incidental Mortality of Seabirds in the Dissostichus Eliginoides Fishery in the Southwest Atlantic (SubArea 48.3, 1995 Season). CCAMLR Science 3:79–91
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Spatial & temporal measures
Streamer (tori) lines
Population Level Assessments
Abundance Indices
2013
Mula J, Macías D, García-Barcelona S, Báez JC (2013) Efecto de la Luna en las capturas incidentales de tortuga boba en palangre de superficie dirigido al atún blanco en el Mediterráneo occidental. Bol Asoc Herpetol Esp 24:4
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Sea Turtles
Mitigation Techniques
Night / day setting
2007
National Marine Fisheries Service (2007) Guide for complying with regulations to reduce interactions between seabirds and Hawaii-based longline vessels. WCPFC SC3/ EB IP-10, Honolulu, Hawaii
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Dyed bait
Line shooter
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Monofilament / Wire Leaders
Night / day setting
Side-setting
Streamer (tori) lines
2024
New Zealand (2024) Review of Conservation and Management Measure to mitigate the impact of fishing for highly migratory fish stocks on seabirds (CMM 2018-03): informal intersessional process, key findings, and management options - Rev.01. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 20th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC20-2024/EB-WP-06(Rev.01), Manila, Philippines
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Deep / shallow setting
Dyed bait
Hook Shielding Devices
Hookpod
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Spatial & temporal measures
Streamer (tori) lines
Underwater setting techniques
Management Categories
International & National Management Schemes
2023
New Zealand (2023) Mitigation Standards to Reduce Light-induced Vessel Strikes of Seabirds with New Zealand Commercial Fishing Vessels. In: ACAP - Joint 11th Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group & 7th Meeting of the Population & Conservation Status Working Group. SBWG11/PaCSWG7 Inf 11, Edinburgh, UK
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PS
Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Night / day setting
2010
NOAA Fisheries Service (2010) Reducing and Mitigating Interactions between Seabirds and Hawaii-Based Longline Fishing
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Brickle curtain
Dyed bait
Line shooter
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Monofilament / Wire Leaders
Night / day setting
Side-setting
Streamer (tori) lines
2020
NOAA National marine Fisheries Service PIRO (2020) Seabird Interactions and Mitigation Efforts in Hawaii Longline Fisheries: 2018 Annual Report. Revised June 2020. Annual Report 22
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Dyed bait
Line shooter
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Safe handling & release
Side-setting
Management Categories
Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates
2007
Norris W, Brouwer, Stephen (2007) TCC Draft Report and Information Paper on the Voluntary Small Working Group on Seabird Bycatch Mitigation. WCPFC SC3 2007/EB SWG/WP-8, Honolulu, Hawaii
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Bait caster
Deep / shallow setting
Dyed bait
Line weighting & bait sink rate
Management of offal discharge
Night / day setting
Side-setting
Streamer (tori) lines
Underwater setting techniques
2001
Oceanic Fisheries Programme S (2001) A Review of Turtle By-catch in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean tuna fisheries
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PS
Sea Turtles
Mitigation Techniques
Deep / shallow setting
FAD design & management
Fish not squid bait
Night / day setting
Safe handling & release
Soak duration
Population Level Assessments
Abundance Indices
2017
Orbesen ES, Snodgrass D, Shideler GS, et al (2017) Diurnal patterns in Gulf of Mexico epipelagic predator interactions with pelagic longline gear: implications for target species catch rates and bycatch mitigation. Bulletin of Marine Science 93:573–589. https://doi.org/10.5343/bms.2016.1008
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Sharks and Rays
Mitigation Techniques
Night / day setting
2020
Ouled-Cheikh J, Sanpera C, Bécares J, et al (2020) Spatiotemporal analyses of tracking data reveal fine-scale, daily cycles in seabird–fisheries interactions. ICES Journal of Marine Science 77:2508–2517. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa098
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Seabirds
Mitigation Techniques
Night / day setting
Spatial & temporal measures
Management Categories
Tagging Studies
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