The EFPs were the result of several years of collaboration between the fishing industry, NOAA Fisheries, and the Pacific Fishery Management Council to abolish obsolete trawl gear regulations and develop gear types that retained healthy groundfish stocks while avoiding bycatch of salmon and other protected species Patient . [ NOAA 2018 Status of Stocks 0 MCLH 23/01/2024 ]

Longlines, although shown to be a more efficient fishing method (economically and in terms of selectivity), still had bycatch of turtles and seabirds, and marine mammals Patient are targeted to be used as bait. [ Alfaro_Small_scale_fisheries 0 MCLH 19/01/2024 ]

Regrettably, the lack of reporting of marine mammal Patient bycatch on a global scale Expanse and the difficulty in obtaining useful estimates render any direct comparison of bycatch across countries unfeasible. [ Alder Pauly_biodiversity 0 MCLH 19/01/2024 ]

Over the last few decades, evidence of marine vertebrate Patient bycatch has been collected for a range of industrial fisheries. [ Alfaro Shigueto_marine turtles 0 MCLH 19/01/2024 ]