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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2023	ACAP (2023) ACAP Review of mitigation measures and Best Practice Advice for Reducing the Impact of Pelagic Longline Fisheries on Seabirds. In: ACAP - 13th Meeting of the Advisory Committee. Edinburgh, UK	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Dyed bait Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod Lasers Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Smart Tuna Hook Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
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	LL	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
2019	ACAP (2019) ACAP Review and Best Practice Advice for Reducing the Impact of Pelagic Longline Fisheries on Seabirds - May 2019. In: ACAP - Eleventh Meeting of the Advisory Committee. Florianópolis, Brazil	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Dyed bait Haul mitigation Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod Lasers Lightsticks / light attractors Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Smart Tuna Hook Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2019	ACAP (2019) ACAP advice for reducing the impact of pelagic longline fishing operations on seabirds WCPFC. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 15th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC15-2019/EB-IP-03, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia	LL, PS	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Dyed bait Haul mitigation Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod Lasers Lightsticks / light attractors Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Smart Tuna Hook Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques Management Categories Fisheries Management Performance
2018	Birdlife International (2018) Seabird Bycatch Mitigation Factsheets / Ending Seabird Bycatch. In: Birdlife International partnership for nature and people. http://www.birdlife.org/bycatch. Accessed 5 Nov 2014	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Branchline (snood) hauler Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2017	ACAP (2017) ACAP Review and Best Practice Advice for Reducing the Impact of Pelagic Longline Fisheries on Seabirds. In: ACAP - Tenth Meeting of the Advisory Committee. ACAP, Wellington, New Zealand	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Dyed bait Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod Lightsticks / light attractors Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Smart Tuna Hook Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2017	Ramos-Cartelle A, Carroceda A, Fernández-Costa F, Mejuto J (2017) Interaction between seabirds and the Spanish longline fishery targeting swordfish in the south Atlantic ocea (south of 25 degrees S) during the period 2010-2014. Collect Vol Sci Pap ICCAT 73:3120–3127	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Line shooter Night / day setting Management Categories Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques
2016	ACAP (2016) 2016 ACAP Review and Best Practice Advice for Reducing the Impact of Pelagic Longline Fisheries on Seabirds. In: 9th Meeting of the ACAP Advisory Committee. La Serena, Chile	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Chemical deterrents or attractants Dyed bait Hook Shielding Devices Hookpod Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Smart Tuna Hook Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2014	Birdlife International (2014) Bycatch Mitigation Fact Sheet 11. Pelagic Longline: Bait caster and line shooter. English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified & Traditional Chinese, Spanish.	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Line shooter
2014	IATTC SAC (2014) Best Practice Advice to Reduce the Bycatch of Seabirds in the Convention Area	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Brickle curtain Double-weight branchlines Dyed bait Line shooter Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2013	ACAP (2013) Report of Seabird Bycatch Working Group Rev 2. Includes: Annex 2 ACAP review of seabird bycatch mitigation measures for pelagic longline fisheries; Annex 3 ACAP Summary Advice for Reducing Impact of Pelagic Longlines on Seabirds. In: Seventh Meeting of the Advisory Committee, La Rochelle, France, 1-3 May. ACAP, La Rochelle, France, p 112	LL, GN	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Chemical deterrents or attractants Dyed bait Hook Shielding Devices Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Safe handling & release Side-setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Smart Tuna Hook Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2013	ACAP (2013) Report of Seabird Working Group. La Rochelle, France	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Chemical deterrents or attractants Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Sliding Leads (Lumo Leads) Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2012	ACAP (2012) Review of Seabird Bycatch Mitigation Measures for Pelagic Longline Fisheries. WCPFC, Busan, Republic of Korea, p 20	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Branchline (snood) hauler Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2012	Tosatto M D (2012) Biological Opinion of the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the Operation of Hawaii-based Pelagic Longline Fisheries, Shallow Set and Deep Set, Hawaii. US Fish and Wildlife Service, Hawaii	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting
2011	Løkkeborg S (2011) Best practices to mitigate seabird bycatch in longline, trawl and gillnet fisheries - efficiency and practical applicability. Marine Ecology Progress Series 435:285–303. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps09227	LL, GN	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Chemical deterrents or attractants Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Pingers - acoustic alarms Side-setting Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Sub-surface gillnets Underwater setting techniques Visual alerts for gillnets - other
2011	ACAP (2011) AC5 Annex 6 Review of seabird bycatch mitigation measures for pelagic longline fisheries. ACAP, Guayaquil, Equador, p 12	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2010	ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group (2010) Annex 5: Review of Seabird Bycatch Mitigation Measures for Pelagic Longline Fisheries. In: ACAP - Third Meeting of the Seabird Bycatch Working Group. ACAP, Mar del Plata, Argentina	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2010	Robertson G, Candy SG, Wienecke B (2010) Effect of line shooter and mainline tension on the sink rates of pelagic longlines and implications for seabird interactions. WCPFC, Nuku’alofa, Tonga	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate
2010	ACAP Seabird Bycatch Working Group (2010) Best Practice Technical Guidelines - Summary Advice Statement for reducing impact of pelagic longline gear on seabirds. ACAP, Mar del Plata, Argentina	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Spatial & temporal measures Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2010	NOAA Fisheries Service (2010) Reducing and Mitigating Interactions between Seabirds and Hawaii-Based Longline Fishing	LL	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
2010	WCPFC SCS (2010) Seabird Bycatch Mitigation. WCPFC, Nuku’alofa, Tonga	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2009	ACAP (2009) Mitigation measures for pelagic longline gear: a report on the work of the seabird bycatch working group, agreement on the conservation of albatrosses and petrels. ACAP	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Bait caster Chemical deterrents or attractants Dyed bait Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Underwater setting techniques
2009	IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch (2009) Report of the Fifth Session of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC, Mombasa, Kenya	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Line shooter Streamer (tori) lines Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Data Availability and Collection International & National Management Schemes Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2009	IOTC SC (2009) Report of the Fifth Session of the IOTC Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch IOTC-2009-WPEB-R[E]. IOTC, Mobasa, Kenya	LL, PS	Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Circle hooks Deep / shallow setting FAD design & management Line shooter Line weighting & bait sink rate Safe handling & release
2008	Robertson G, Williamson J, McNeill M, et al (2008) Autoliners and seabird by-catch: do line setters increase the sink rate of integrated weight longlines. CCAMLR Science 15:107–114	LL	Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Line shooter

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