Screen LibraryBycatch in small-scale tuna fisheries：a global study
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,
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| Publisher Address: | Rome |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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FAO fisheries and aquaculture technical paper, ; 560 |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 116 p.: ; 25 cm. |
| Publication Frequency: | Also freely available online. |
| ISBN: |
9789251068496 (pbk.) 9251068496 |
| Index Number: | S965 |
| CLC: | S965.332 |
| Call Number: | S965.332/G479 |
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Donation. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-56). The aim of the study was to quantify catches of tuna and bycatch in small-scale pelagic fisheries. Additional goals were to identify on a global scale information gaps, major issues and management concerns associated with these fisheries and their bycatch. The study made estimates of tuna and non-tuna catches in the small-scale fisheries of 181 ocean areas. The total amount of tuna produced by these fisheries was around 681 000 tonness per year in the mid-2000s. About 753 000 tonnes of non-tuna was produced by those same fisheries. The major priorities for improving our understanding of bycatch in small-scale pelagic fisheries are improved coverage of bycatch by the tuna regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) that collect such information, increased involvement of the other tuna RFMOs in small-scale pelagic fisheries, verification of the high reported catches from small-scale pelagic fisheries in Indonesia, and greater technical details on the small-scale pelagic fisheries that take sensitive species. |