Thanks to all who joined our round table discussion with members of the Ocean Modeling Forum's Marine Mammal Bycatch Working Group to learn about their main findings and final products on how to assess and manage marine mammal bycatch. All Working Group products are linked below and for the event recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMX_fggxpw4

Also join us next week (Thursday, March 24) as our focus on assessing marine mammal bycatch continues with a webinar on another Lenfest-funded project applying the Bycatch Risk Assessment (ByRA) Toolbox to the Chilean coast. Click here to register for the webinar.

Final Products of the Marine Mammal Bycatch Working Group:

• Best practices to assess and management bycatch of marine mammals
• Estimating abundance of marine mammal populations
• Estimating bycatch mortality for marine mammals
• Can we management marine mammal bycatch effectively in low data environments?
• Robustness of potential biological removal
• Marine Mammal Bycatch Impacts Exploration Tool
• Public ‘shiny’ app
• Journal publication
• Case study applications:
• Chile: Assessing pinniped bycatch mortality with uncertainty in abundance and post-release mortality
• Iceland: Evaluating management strategies for marine mammal populations
• Full issue of Frontiers in Marine Science on Assessment Approaches to Support Bycatch Management for Marine Mammals (edited by Working Group members, Tessa Francis, André Punt, Jeff Moore, and Randall Reeves)

Best,

Emily Knight

Manager, Lenfest Ocean Program

The Pew Charitable Trusts

eknight@pewtrusts.org

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Manager, Lenfest Ocean Program

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