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: http://www.knigakamchatka.ru/nauchnye-trudy-nauchno-populyarnye-izdaniya-kam chatki/raboty-uchenyx-issledovateley-kamchatki/artukhin-birds-mammals.html ======================================== 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