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Fisheries Bycatch: Global Issues and Creative Solutions

29th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium

Anchorage, Alaska
May 13-16, 2014

Gordon Kruse, Steering Committee chair
Organized by Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska Fairbanks

The symposium will bring together fishery and social scientists, managers, fishermen, and others from around the world to report on creative approaches to solving fishery bycatch issues.
Topic areas:

• Fisheries bycatch—what are the biological and ecological issues?
• Economic and social considerations of bycatch
• Accounting for bycatch of nontarget fish species
• Solutions for monitoring protected and endangered species
• Gear developments and other technological solutions
• Fishery regulatory approaches and solutions
• Industry initiatives, solutions, and cooperative research

For more information please visit the symposium web page.