Hello everybody!
New book on birds and mammal by-catch is published in Russia
(apologies for cross-postings):
Artukhin Yu. B., Burkanov V. N., Nikulin V. S. Accidental
By-Catch Of Marine Birds And Mammals In The Salmon Gillnet Fishery In The
Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Moscow: Skorost' Tsveta, 2010. - 264 p. (in Russian
with English summary) ISBN 978-5-9902255-1-0
The origins and development of the salmon driftnet fishery
in the northwest Pacific are described. The scope of the modern gillnet fishery
in the Russian Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), as well as its research and
monitoring programs. Gillnet fishery methods in the Russian EEZ and the
monitoring effort by commercial Japanese and scientific Russian fleets are
described. Marine bird and mammal by-catch data collected during the large
scale salmon fishery from the 1990s through the early 2000s are summarized in
detail. Species composition and seasonal, inter-annual and geographic variation
in by-catch mortality are analyzed. Estimates of bird and mammal mortality in
gillnets are presented and the potential effect of the fishery on populations
is discussed. Global measures to mitigate gillnet by-catch are presented, as is
the potential of implementing some of these measures in Russian waters.
Published by the approval of the Scientific Council of
Kamchatka Branch of the Pacific Geographical Institute Russian Academy of
Sciences.
The book is published within the Pacific Environment and
Resources Center (PERC) and WWF Russia projects, aimed at the conservation of
resources and diversity of Pacific Salmons of Kamchatka, sponsored by the
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
PDF-file (13 Mb) is available from:
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Vladimir N. Burkanov, Ph.D.
National Marine Mammal Laboratory, NMFS, NOAA
7600 Sand Point Way, NE Building 4.
Seattle, WA 98115
Tel. 206-526-4298
Fax. 206-526-6615