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References (scientific & technical literature) encompass seabird, sea turtle, shark & ray, & marine mammal bycatch mitigation & management in oceanic tuna & billfish fisheries (longline, purse seine & gillnet). Formats include journal articles, meeting papers, infographics, illustrated handling & identification guides, factsheets, videos, books, brochures...

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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2015	ISSF (2015) Non-target Species Caught in Tuna Fisheries	LL, PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates
2024	ISSF (2024) Jelly-FAD Guide: Building Netting-Free, Biodegradable FADs for Sustainable Tuna Fishing	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques ALDFG - management of abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear FAD design & management
2015	ISSF (2015) Report of the Tuna RFMO Expert Working Group: Harmonisation of Longline Bycatch Data Collected by Tuna RFMOs. WCPFC, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia	LL	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Data Harmonisation E-monitoring
2016	ISSF (2016) Purse Seine Fisheries -- Bycatch Mitigation for Sharks: Handling & Release Part I	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release
2016	ISSF (2016) Protecting Sharks: Reducing Shark Bycatch in Purse Seine Fisheries	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Safe handling & release
2019	ISSF (2019) Tropical purse seine fisheries: Current bycatch share by ocean		Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates
2022	ISSF (2022) Fact Checking Six Ideas About Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs). Video recording	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques ALDFG - management of abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear FAD design & management
2020	ISSF (2020) RFMO Best Practices Snapshot - 2020: FAD Management	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Management Categories Fisheries Management Performance
2018	ISSF (2018) FAD Use, FIPs & the MSC Standard	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management
2016	ISSF (2016) Mitigation of Silky Shark Bycatch in Tropical Tuna Purse Seine Fisheries. In: IOTC - 12th Working Party on Ecosystems and Bycatch. IOTC-2016-WPEB12-39, Seychelles	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Safe handling & release
2016	ISSF (2016) Purse Seine Fisheries -- Bycatch Mitigation for Sharks: Handling & Release Part II	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release
2015	ISSF (2015) The Ideal Purse Seine Vessel	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management
2023	ISSF (2023) ISSF workshop on different approaches to limit the number of FADs in the oceans. In: IATTC - 7th Meeting of the Ad Hoc Working Group on FADs. IATTC FAD07 3rd Party doc, La Jolla California USA	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management
2022	ISSF (2022) Jelly FAD - A paradigm shift in Biodegradable Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) design. Video recording	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques ALDFG - management of abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear FAD design & management
2024	ISSF (2024) BioFADs: New Trials and Large-Scale Deployment	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management
2014	ISSF (ed) (2014) Purse Seine Bycatch Mitigation and Handling (multiple languages), 3rd edn. ISSF, Washington, D.C., USA.	PS	Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Safe handling & release Management Categories Species Identification
2019	ISSF (2019) Biodegradable FAD Workshops in the Western Pacific Ocean. Washington DC USA	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management
2016	ISSF (2016) Purse Seine Fisheries -- Bycatch Mitigation for Sharks: Handling & Release Part III	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release
2023	ISSF (2023) Status of the World Fisheries for Tuna. November 2023. ISSF Technical Report 2023-12, Pittsburgh, PA, USA	LL, PS, GN	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates International & National Management Schemes
2012	ISSF (2012) Research Protocols ISSF Purse Seine Bycatch Mitigation – WCPO Research Cruise Protocols	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Management Categories At-Vessel and Post-Release Mortality
2015	ISSF (2015) ISSF research on FADs	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Acoustic discrimination FAD design & management
2024	ISSF (2024) Reducing FAD Structure Impacts on the Marine Ecosystem	PS	Marine Mammals, Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques ALDFG - management of abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear FAD design & management
2017	ISSF (2017) Bycatch Mitigation for Silky Sharks: Testing Methods to Keep Silky Sharks Out of Tuna Fishing Nets	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Safe handling & release
2014	ISSF (ed) (2014) Longline Skippers’ Guidebook (English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Tagalong, Vietnamese), 2nd edn. ISSF, Washington DC USA	LL	Sea Turtles, Seabirds, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Circle hooks Deep / shallow setting Double-weight branchlines Fish not squid bait Management of offal discharge Night / day setting Safe handling & release Side-setting Streamer (tori) lines Management Categories Species Identification
2014	ISSF (2014) Purse Seine Skippers’ Guidebook (English, French, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Tagalong, Vietnamese)	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management

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