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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
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	Romanov E, Bach P, Rabearisoa N (2009) Depredation. Improvement of the information flow within IOTC. 1. Draft IOTC information sheet, reporting form, and webpage. In: IOTC - 5th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC-2009-WPEB-04, Mombasa, Kenya	LL	Marine Mammals, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Data Availability and Collection
2008	Camhi M, Pikitch EK, Babcock EA (eds) (2008) Sharks of the open ocean: biology, fisheries and conservation. Blackwell Science, Oxford ; Ames, Iowa	LL, PS, GN	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Data Availability and Collection Economic and Social Analysis International & National Management Schemes Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices Biological Parameters Risk Analysis - Open Category
2004	Lewison RL, Crowder LB, Read AJ, Freeman SA (2004) Understanding impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine megafauna. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 19:598–604. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2004.09.004	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Data Availability and Collection International & National Management Schemes
2003	Nakano H, Seki MP (2003) Synopsis of biological data on the blue shark, Prionace glauca Linnaeus. Bulletin of Fisheries Research Agency (Japan 6:18–55	LL	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Data Availability and Collection Review and Planning Population Level Assessments Biological Parameters

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