Assessment, evaluation and mitigation of marine mammal bycatch in commercial fishing gear

• Main Author: Hamilton, SA
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: bycatch; pinniped; cetacean; fisheries; trawl; mitigation; population dynamics; Antarctic; Campbell Island; New Zealand; Antarc*; Auckland Islands; baleen whales; Harbour porpoise; Phocoena phocoena
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/38454/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/38454/1/Hamilton_whole_thesis.pdf

Marine mammals, particularly cetaceans and pinnipeds, are killed as incidental bycatch in fisheries around the world. Management measures to reduce this bycatch and improve the conservation outcomes of affected bycatch species include the implementation of temporal and spatial fishery closures, oper...