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Year	Citation	Gear	Species	Technique/Category
2009	Walsh WA, Bigelow KA, Sender KL (2009) Decreases in Shark Catches and Mortality in the Hawaii-Based Longline Fishery as Documented by Fishery Observers. Marine and Coastal Fisheries 1:270–282. https://doi.org/10.1577/C09-003.1	LL	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Deep / shallow setting Fish not squid bait Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices
2009	Watson JT, Essington TE, Lennert-Cody CE, Hall MA (2009) Trade-Offs in the Design of Fishery Closures: Management of Silky Shark Bycatch in the Eastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fishery. Conservation Biology 23:626–635. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.01121.x	PS	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Spatial & temporal measures Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices
2014	Watson J, Bigelow K (2014) Trade-offs among Catch, Bycatch, and Landed Value in the American Samoa Longline Fishery x. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 10th Regular Session. WCPFC SC10-2014/EB-IP-09, Majuro, Republic of the Marshall Islands, p 12	LL	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Deep / shallow setting Gear configuration - other Population Level Assessments Abundance Indices
2011	Whoriskey S, Arauz R, Baum JK (2011) Potential impacts of emerging mahi-mahi fisheries on sea turtle and elasmobranch bycatch species. Biological Conservation 144:1841–1849. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2011.03.021	LL	Sea Turtles, Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Safe handling & release Soak duration
1998	Williams PG (1998) Shark and related species catch in tuna fisheries of the tropical western and central Pacific Ocean	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Deep / shallow setting FAD design & management Monofilament / Wire Leaders
2021	Zhou S, Dunn M, Williams A (2021) Appropriate Limit Reference Points for WCPO Elasmobranchs. In: WCPFC Scientific Committee 17th Regular Session. WCPFC-SC17-2021/MI-WP-07 (WCPFC-SC16-2020/MI-IP-21), Electronic Meeting	LL, PS	Sharks and Rays	Population Level Assessments Stock Assessments
2022	Ziegler I (2022) Carcharhinus falciformis - a massive bycatch in the industrial purse seine industry but systematically underreported and deprived of any protection in the Indian Ocean. In: IOTC - 18th Working Party on Ecosystems & Bycatch. IOTC-2022-WPEB18-29_rev1, Online	PS	Sharks and Rays	Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates
2022	Ziegler I (2022) Assessing the impact of drifting FADs on silky shark mortality in the Indian Ocean. In: IOTC - 3rd Ad Hoc Working Group on FADs. IOTC-2022-WGFAD03-10-Rev1, Online	PS	Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques FAD design & management Management Categories Bycatch Threats and Interaction Rates
2023	Ziegler I (2023) A review of the effectiveness of gear modifications to reduce shark bycatch mortality in longlining. In: IOTC - 19th Working Party on Ecosystems & Bycatch. IOTC-2023-WPEB19-23_rev1, La Saline Les Bains, Reunion, France		Sharks and Rays	Mitigation Techniques Monofilament / Wire Leaders Management Categories At-Vessel and Post-Release Mortality International & National Management Schemes

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