NOAA releases first national bycatch report Establishes methodology, baseline for future studies

A new NOAA report of data collected in 2005 will help the agency’s scientists better monitor progress in reducing bycatch - the non-target fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds caught incidentally in fishing.

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