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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2023	Drynan D, Baker B (2023) Technical mitigation techniques to reduce bycatch of sharks: there is no silver bullet. In: IOTC - 19th Working Party on Ecosystems & Bycatch. IOTC-2023-WPEB19-INF13, La Saline Les Bains, Reunion, France	LL, PS, GN	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Artificial bait Chemical deterrents or attractants Circle hooks FAD design & management Fish not squid bait Lightsticks / light attractors Magnetic, E+ metals, electrical deterrents Monofilament / Wire Leaders Purse seine deck release devices Safe handling & release Soak duration Management Categories Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques
2020	FAO (2020) Report of the Expert Meeting to Develop Technical Guidelines to Reduce Bycatch of Marine Mammals in Capture Fisheries. Rome, Italy, 17–19 September 2019. Fisheries and Aquaculture Report No. 1289. FAO, Rome, Italy	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Gear configuration - other Pingers - acoustic alarms Spatial & temporal measures Sub-surface gillnets Weak Hooks Management Categories Economic and Social Analysis Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques International & National Management Schemes Policy Development and Knowledge Exchange Review and Planning
2021	FAO (2021) Fishing operations. Guidelines to prevent and reduce bycatch of marine mammals in capture fisheries. FAO, Rome, Italy	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Pingers - acoustic alarms Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2022	Fu W, Song Z, Wang T, et al (2022) Acoustic deterrence to facilitate the conservation of pantropical spotted dolphins (Stenella attenuata) in the Western Pacific Ocean. Front Mar Sci 9:1023860. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.1023860	PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors
2011	Gilman EL (2011) Bycatch governance and best practice mitigation technology in global tuna fisheries. Marine Policy 35:590–609. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2011.01.021	LL, PS	Sea Turtles, Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Lightsticks / light attractors Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Compliance Data Availability and Collection Fisheries Management Performance
2006	Gilman E, Brothers N, McPherson G, Dalzell P (2006) A review of cetacean interactions with longline gear. J Cetacean Res Manage 8:215–223	LL	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Chemical deterrents or attractants Depredation Mitigation Device Pingers - acoustic alarms Spatial & temporal measures Vessel-specific management
2023	Gilman E, Brothers N, McPherson G, Dalzell P (2023) A review of cetacean interactions with longline gear. JCRM 8:215–223. https://doi.org/10.47536/jcrm.v8i2.717	LL	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Depredation Mitigation Device Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Economic and Social Analysis
2014	Goetz S, Read FL, Santos MB, et al (2014) Cetacean–fishery interactions in Galicia (NW Spain): results and management implications of a face-to-face interview survey of local fishers. ICES J Mar Sci 71:604–617. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fst149	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Deep / shallow setting Pingers - acoustic alarms Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Economic and Social Analysis
2015	Guinet C, Tixier P, Gasco N, Duhamel G (2015) Long-term studies of Crozet Island killer whales are fundamental to understanding the economic and demographic consequences of their depredation behaviour on the Patagonian toothfish fishery. ICES J Mar Sci 72:1587–1597. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu221	LL	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Spatial & temporal measures
2013	Hamer DJ (2013) Operational interactions between marine mammals and commercial fisheries in Australian and South Pacific waters: characterisation and options for mitigation. Thesis, University of Adelaide	LL	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Depredation Mitigation Device Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques
2012	Hamer DJ, Childerhouse SJ, Gales NJ (2012) Odontocete bycatch and depredation in longline fisheries: A review of available literature and of potential solutions. Mar Mam Sci 28:E345–E374. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2011.00544.x	LL	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Depredation Mitigation Device Pingers - acoustic alarms Management Categories Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques
2015	Hamer DJ, Childerhouse SJ, McKinlay JP, et al (2015) Two devices for mitigating odontocete bycatch and depredation at the hook in tropical pelagic longline fisheries. ICES J Mar Sci 72:1691–1705. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsv013	LL	Marine Mammals, Seabirds	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Deep / shallow setting Depredation Mitigation Device Line weighting & bait sink rate Management Categories Economic and Social Analysis
2019	Hamilton S, Baker GB (2019) Technical mitigation to reduce marine mammal bycatch and entanglement in commercial fishing gear: lessons learnt and future directions. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries 29:223–247. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-019-09550-6	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Backdown procedure and Medina panel Depredation Mitigation Device Pingers - acoustic alarms Safe handling & release Weak Hooks Management Categories Implementation & Evaluation of Mitigation Techniques
1987	Hembree D, Harwood MB (1987) Pelagic Gillnet modification trials in Northern Australian seas. Report of the International Whaling Commission SC/38/SM15:5	GN	Marine Mammals, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Deep / shallow setting Sub-surface gillnets
2007	IOTC Secretariat (2007) Workshop on the Depredation in the Tuna Longline Fisheries in the Indian Ocean 2007. IOTC, Seychelles	LL	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Depredation Mitigation Device Gear configuration - other Pingers - acoustic alarms Management Categories Economic and Social Analysis
2010	ISSF (2010) ISSF Meeting on mitigation of by-catches in the Tuna Purse seine Floating Object fisheries: Sukarrieta, Spain 24-27 Nov 2009. WCPFC, Nuku’alofa, Tonga	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Acoustic discrimination Chemical deterrents or attractants FAD design & management Magnetic, E+ metals, electrical deterrents Safe handling & release
2011	Itano D, Restrepo V (2011) Status of the Purse Seine Bycatch Mitigation Project and research cruises funded by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation with notes on the development of best practices for the live release of encircled animals. WCPFC, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Chemical deterrents or attractants FAD design & management Safe handling & release Spatial & temporal measures
1996	Jefferson TA, Curry BE (1996) Acoustic methods of reducing or eliminating marine mammal-fishery interactions: do they work? Ocean & Coastal Management 31:41–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/0964-5691(95)00049-6	GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Pingers - acoustic alarms
2013	Jordan LK, Mandelman JW, McComb DM, et al (2013) Linking sensory biology and fisheries bycatch reduction in elasmobranch fishes: a review with new directions for research. Conservation Physiology 1:20. https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/cot002	LL, PS, GN	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Artificial bait Chemical deterrents or attractants Fish not squid bait Lightsticks / light attractors Magnetic, E+ metals, electrical deterrents
2020	Kratzer IMF, Schäfer I, Stoltenberg A, et al (2020) Determination of Optimal Acoustic Passive Reflectors to Reduce Bycatch of Odontocetes in Gillnets. Front Mar Sci 7:. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00539	GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors
2021	Kratzer IMF, Brooks ME, Bilgin S, et al (2021) Using acoustically visible gillnets to reduce bycatch of a small cetacean: first pilot trials in a commercial fishery. Fisheries Research 243:106088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106088	GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors
1999	Kraus S (1999) The once and future ping: Challenges for the use of acoustic deterrents in fisheries. MTS Journal 33:4	PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Pingers - acoustic alarms
2018	Leaper R, Calderan S (2018) Review of methods used to reduce risks of cetacean bycatch and entanglements. CMS Technical Series Publication No. 38. UNEP/CMS Secretariat, Bonn, Germany	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Pingers - acoustic alarms Safe handling & release Spatial & temporal measures Weak Hooks Management Categories International & National Management Schemes
2003	Long K J, Block BA (2003) Proceedings of the International Technical Expert Workshop on Marine Turtle Bycatch in Longline Fisheries. U.S. Dep. Commerce, NOAA, Seattle, Washington	LL	Sea Turtles	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Chemical deterrents or attractants Circle hooks Deep / shallow setting Dyed bait Fish not squid bait Soak duration Stealth fishing gear
2022	Lucas S, Berggren P (2022) A systematic review of sensory deterrents for bycatch mitigation of marine megafauna. Rev Fish Biol Fisheries 33:1–33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-022-09736-5	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic deterrents and attractors Chemical deterrents or attractants Dyed bait Illumination of gillnets Magnetic, E+ metals, electrical deterrents Management of offal discharge Pingers - acoustic alarms

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