kodiak fisheries work group august 5, 2015 shems jud & karly mcilwain
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Kodiak Fisheries Work Group
August 5, 2015Shems Jud & Karly McIlwain
About EDF Oceans
•Working to restore fisheries to abundance and protect important places in the ocean.
•Improve fisheries management in the U.S., Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Indonesia, Philippines, Sweden, and Spain.
•Fishery Solution Center
• Secure
• Exclusive
• All sources
• Scaled
• Accountable
• Limited
• Transferable
Bycatch is a Global Issue
Each year an estimate of 63 billion pounds of marine life are dumped overboard in fisheries around the world, accounting for approximately 40% of global catch. (Keledijan et al. 2014; Davies et al., 2009).
Getting Incentives Right to Reduce Bycatch
Financial rewards or penalties
Change in fishing patterns, adoption of
new technologies, cooperation
Improved selectivity
Caps and Accountability
• West Coast Groundfish Trawl Fishery -Community Fishery Association & Quota Bank, Pacific Adaptive Management Program
• Cape Cod Fisheries Trust
• Denmark Fishpools
West Coast Groundfish Trawl Fishery
Cape Cod Fisheries Trust
Denmark Fishpools
Other ways to manage for bycatch:
•Weighted transfer of quota
•Quota rollovers
•Deemed values
•Buffer quotas
•Selectivity and avoidance tools