Monday, March 17, 2:00-4:00 pm, Room 206B in the Convention Center
This event is free and open to all Expo attendees. You do not need a Conference badge to attend.
SFP’s Bycatch Solutions Hub is an effective and exciting tool for industry to connect with in-the-water bycatch-reduction projects that are actively reducing risks to ocean wildlife in fisheries around the globe, and to find opportunities to support implementation in commercial fisheries.
Join our Protecting Ocean Wildlife team for our 4th annual Bycatch Solutions Showcase to learn more about practices and technologies that can reduce bycatch of non-target species in wild-capture fisheries. The Showcase will feature representatives of projects that have already been funded through the Bycatch Solutions Hub, and others that are currently posted and seeking funding.
- Comprehensive bycatch reduction in Vietnamese tuna fisheries, Sea Delight and Vietnam Tuna Association
- Electronic monitoring in Eastern Pacific large pelagics longline fisheries, The Nature Conservancy, Martec, and Publix
- Maine lobster fishery ghost gear prevention, Blue Ocean Gear, Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation, Global Ghost Gear Initiative, Net Your Problem, Publix
- Modified purse seines to reduce seabird bycatch in a Chilean reduction fishery, Birdlife International, Albatross Task Force – Chile, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
- Non-entangling biodegradable jelly FAD development and deployment for the tuna purse seine fishery, International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF)
- Reducing dolphin and porpoise bycatch in European cod gillnets, Fishtek Marine and Havforsknings Institute
- Satellite buoys in California’s deep-set buoy gear swordfish fishery: Supporting the transition away from gillnets, Blue Ocean Gear and Santa Monica Seafood
- Supporting access to on-demand gear for Maine lobster harvesters, Maine Department of Marine Resources, Publix
- Supporting access to on-demand gear for New England lobster harvesters, Publix, NOAA, Whale and Dolphin Conservation, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Conservation Law Foundation
- Seabird bycatch reduction in Indian Ocean tuna longline fisheries: Fishing with Hookpods, Thai Union, Hookpod, and Key Traceability
- Seabird-safe toolkit, Southern Seabird Trust
- Supporting access to on-demand gear for Canadian snow crab harvesters, canFISH, Publix, and the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Snow Crab FIP
Contact SFP Protecting Ocean Wildlife Program Manager Anne DiMonti for more information.