Predicted times and areas of interaction risk between harbour seals and coastal gillnet fisheries in Norway

• Main Author: Elnes, Jonas Oliver
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: relative interaction risk; Norway; harbour seal (Phoca vitulina); bycatch; Arctic; Senja; Vesterålen; Arctic cod; harbour seal; North Norway; Northeast Arctic cod; Phoca vitulina
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10852/87822; http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-90463

Abstract Incidental take of non-target species by fisheries, also referred to as bycatch, is a major concern for management of species in the marine megafauna. In Norway, 555 harbour seal (Phoca vitulina) die as the result of bycatch each year. The majority of these bycatch events occur in gillnet f...