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.
At our Bycatch Solutions Showcase at Seafood Expo North America 2024 in Boston, representatives of projects that have already been funded through the Hub, and others that are currently posted and seeking funding presented their work.
Featured projects included:
- Comprehensive bycatch reduction in Vietnamese tuna fisheries, Sea Delight and Vietnam Tuna Association
- Electronic monitoring in the Alaskan salmon gillnet fishery to support vessel data collection, ISN, Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation, Skipper Science
- Electronic monitoring in Eastern Pacific large pelagics longline fisheries, The Nature Conservancy, Martec, and 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
- Seabird bycatch reduction in Indian Ocean tuna longline fisheries: Fishing with Hookpods, Thai Union, Hookpod, and Key Traceability
- Supporting access to on-demand gear for Canadian snow crab harvesters, canFISH, Publix, and the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Snow Crab FIP
