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UN
Secretary-General Reports
The annual reports on fisheries issues from the UN Secretary-General,
which include section on fisheries bycatch and discards. The 1995 report deals
with the issue singly, but thereafter the reports are
contained in reports on various fisheries issues:
Fisheries bycatch and
discards and their impact on the sustainable use of the world's living marine resources
The first report on fisheries bycatch and discards, prepared by the FAO and transmitted by
a note of the Secretary-General to the fiftieth session of the General Assembly.
UN Resolutions
Links to the three consolidated Resolutions on driftnet fishing, unauthorized fishing in
zones of national jurisdiction and bycatch and discards.
FAO Committee on Fisheries:
Fisheries Bycatch and Discards
FAO document on the issue, from the 22nd Session of the Committee on Fisheries in 1997.
Bycatch and discards of unwanted
fish
Overview of the issue from
Greenpeace.
Bycatch - The Non-Target Catch
Of Fishing
Basic but very readable overview of the issue from the Australian Aus Fish Facts series.
WDCS fisheries campaign
Part of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society site
which contains information on bycatch issues. It includes the following pages:
The Threat of Bycatch,
Driftnets
and Tuna-Dolphin.
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Literature on-line |
A Study for the Utilization of Bycatch and Discards from Marine Capture Fisheries
Study by Ivor Clucas (FAO Fisheries Circular No. 928)
CASE STUDIES
Reduction
of Bycatch in West Coast Prawn Trawl Fisheries
NOAA Fisheries Report
Fisheries
Bycatch in Western Australian commercial fisheries
Part of the Fisheries
Western Australia website.
Bycatch
(Australia)
Series of pages on Commonwealth and national policy from the Australian Fisheries
Department (AFFA).
An
Economic Analysis of New Bycatch-Reduction Policies for the Gulf of Mexico
Shrimp Fishery
Paper by Yong
Suhk Wui, presented at the IIFET 2000 Conference.
Specific bycatch problems |
The tuna/dolphin problem