F14B:
Getting to the Bottom of Bycatch: Place-Based Risk Assessment of Marine Megafauna Incidental Catch Posters


Session ID#: 27803

Session Description:
Fisheries bycatch is a major threat to marine megafauna globally and addressing it poses many challenges, particularly in developing countries. Fisheries bycatch of marine megafauna is often poorly monitored or regulated, so impacts of bycatch on local populations are not well understood. The limited availability of quantitative data on the abundance and distribution of marine megafauna, bycatch occurrences, encounter frequency, fishing effort, and fishing gear use constrain estimations of bycatch rate and consequently management action. Due to a lack of resources that impede local scientific capacity, data limitations are often greatest in developing countries where marine fisheries can be fundamental to local and even national economies. Bycatch situations and solutions are local and place-based and controlled by diverse biophysical, cultural, economic and political criteria. However, commonalities in many of these issues need to be explored to create a common practice to guide the creation and analysis of bycatch risk analysis locally and globally. We will welcome presenters with examples of place-based bycatch for a discussion of issues and solutions, especially in sites with varying gaps in data. After presentations, we will discuss data gaps, needs, and commonalities, and interdisciplinary methods to determine how socio-cultural and economic dynamics contribute to bycatch.
Primary Chair:  Ellen Hines, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States
Co-chairs:  Andrew Frederick Johnson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States and Gregg Verutes, National Audubon Society, San Francisco, CA, United States
Moderators:  Rebecca L Lewison, San Diego State University, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, Ellen Hines, San Francisco State University, Geography and Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States, Andrew Frederick Johnson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States and Jaime Jahncke, Point Blue Conservation Science, Petaluma, CA, United States
Student Paper Review Liaisons:  Ellen Hines, San Francisco State University, Geography and Environment, San Francisco, CA, United States and Kaytlin Brooke Ingman, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States
Index Terms:

6349 General or miscellaneous [POLICY SCIENCES]
6699 General or miscellaneous [PUBLIC ISSUES]
9399 General or miscellaneous [GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION]
Cross-Topics:
  • B - Biodiversity
  • ES - Ecology and Social Interactions
  • ED - Education, Outreach and Policy

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Catching the Right Fish: A Toolbox for the Risk Assessment of Marine Mammal Bycatch (219153)
Ellen Hines, Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, CA, United States, Rebecca L Lewison, San Diego State University, Biology, San Diego, CA, United States, Gregg Verutes, National Audubon Society, San Francisco, CA, United States, Andrew Frederick Johnson, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Marine Biology Research Division, La Jolla, CA, United States and Marjolaine Caillat, San Francisco State University, United States
Continental-scale analysis reveals fisheries poised for uptake of dynamic ocean management. (304376)
Matthew Savoca1, Elliott L. Hazen2, Steven James Bograd2, Aimee Hoover3 and Lee Benaka4, (1)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Monterey, CA, United States, (2)NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Environmental Research Division, Monterey, CA, United States, (3)Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD, United States, (4)NOAA, National Observer Program, Silver Spring, MD, United States
Using Fisheries Observation Data to Predict the Occurrence of Bycatch for Leatherback Sea Turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the Southeast Pacific (325151)
Jennie Hannah Degenford1, Helen R Bailey2, George Lewis Shillinger3, Aimee Hoover2 and Dong Liang2, (1)University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States, (2)Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD, United States, (3)Organization Not Listed, Pebble Beach, CA, United States
Development of a dynamic management tool to aid in the bycatch reduction and recovery of the critically endangered Eastern Pacific leatherback turtle (318587)
George Lewis Shillinger1, Aimee Hoover2, Dong Liang2, Jennie Hannah Degenford3 and Helen R Bailey2, (1)Organization Not Listed, Pebble Beach, CA, United States, (2)Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Solomons, MD, United States, (3)University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, Solomons, MD, United States
An Overview of Operational Potential Fishing Ground Maps through Satellite Based Applications in Indonesia Seas (318478)
Nyoman Radiarta, Institute for Marine Research and Observation, negara, Bali, Indonesia and Teja Arief Wibawa, Institute for Marine Research and Observation, Indonesia
Estimating Potential Fishing Ground based on Detected Fishing Vessels of NPP-VIIRS Nighttime Imagery in the Indonesian Region (324296)
Teja Arief Wibawa and I Nyoman Radiarta, Institute for Marine Research and Observation, Indonesia

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