Research Protocols ISSF Purse Seine Bycatch Mitigation – WCPO Research Cruise Protocols

The International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) is implementing a research program to develop and test technical options to reduce bycatch resulting from large-scale purse seine fishing on FADs. The core of the project is the chartering of purse seine vessels to serve as experimental platforms to conduct bycatch mitigation research in all oceans to test technical solutions under different oceanographic and fishery-specific conditions.