Addressing Bycatch in Artisanal Gillnet Fisheries

WORKSHOP REPORT 

The Bycatch Consortium is co-hosting a workshop at the Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals.

Description:

We will be participating in the Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Right Whale Research Consortium at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. The Consortium's mission is to "hold annual meetings at which research, new techniques, management strategies, and other facets of right whale conservation are shared and discussed".

See the agenda.

We will be at the Northeast Consortium's conference in Portsmouth, NH to learn about the sucess of collaborative research projects in the region. The Maine Lobstermen's Association (MLA) will be presenting a talk entitled, Documenting lobster gear configurations in the Gulf of Maine to help large whales, a project done in collaboration with the Bycatch Consortium.