Kodiak Fisheries Work Group

August 5, 2015Shems Jud & Karly McIlwain

About EDF Oceans

•Working to restore fisheries to abundance and protect important places in the ocean.

•Improve fisheries management in the U.S., Mexico, Belize, Cuba, Indonesia, Philippines, Sweden, and Spain.

•Fishery Solution Center

• Secure

• Exclusive

• All sources

• Scaled

• Accountable

• Limited

• Transferable

Bycatch is a Global Issue

Each  year an estimate of 63 billion pounds of marine life are dumped overboard in fisheries around the world, accounting for approximately 40% of global catch. (Keledijan et al. 2014; Davies et al., 2009).

Getting Incentives Right to Reduce Bycatch

Financial rewards or penalties

Change in fishing patterns, adoption of

new technologies, cooperation

Improved selectivity

Caps and Accountability

• West Coast Groundfish Trawl Fishery -Community Fishery Association & Quota Bank, Pacific Adaptive Management Program

• Cape Cod Fisheries Trust

• Denmark Fishpools

West Coast Groundfish Trawl Fishery

Cape Cod Fisheries Trust

Denmark Fishpools

Other ways to manage for bycatch:

•Weighted transfer of quota

•Quota rollovers

•Deemed values

•Buffer quotas

•Selectivity and avoidance tools

Thank you…

…Questions?

Shems Judsjud@edf.org

Karly McIlwainkmcilwain@edf.org