Publication Date
8-2015
Series Number
267
Publisher
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
ISBN
978-1-921845-92-5
ISSN
1035 - 4549
Abstract
Effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce interactions between commercial fishing gear and whales.
Objectives:
1. Start to collect additional information required to determine the spatial and temporal extent of migrating whales and how this overlaps with commercial fishing gear.
2. Examine the effectiveness of potential gear modifications to the float rigs of fishing pots/traps to reduce their likelihood of entangling whales.
Number of Pages
111
Keywords
Commercial fishing, Lobster fisheries, Panulirus cygnus, Pot fishing, Cephalopod fisheries, Trap fishing, Fishing gear, Bycatch, Whales, Migrations, Humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae, Western Australia
Disciplines
Aquaculture and Fisheries
Recommended Citation
How, J., Coughran, D., Smith, J., Double, M., Harrison, J., McMath, J., Hebiton, B., A Denham, A. 2015. Effectiveness of mitigation measures to reduce interactions between commercial fishing gear and whales. FRDC Project No 2013/03. Fisheries Research Report No. 267. Department of Fisheries, Western Australia. 120pp.
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