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This case study reviews local legal and institutional frameworks for Argentina and concludes that tools are in place to monitor and mitigate the negative impact of bycatch on the populations.
Pelagic threshers are frequently taken as bycatch on longlines and in driftnets meant for other species such as tuna, and also rarely in gillnets and antishark nets.
The shark itself is too small to be of value, and is only infrequently taken, as bycatch, on pelagic longlines and in midwater trawls and plankton nets.
This shark is caught, generally in low numbers, as bycatch on longlines intended for tuna, swordfish, and other pelagic sharks, as well as in anchored gillnets and on hook-and-line.
In addition to commercial shark fisheries, dusky sharks are also caught as bycatch on longlines meant for tuna and swordfish (and usually kept for its valuable fins), and by recreational fishers.
It is estimated that each year, around 100 million sharks from many species are killed for the fin trade, overfishing, as bycatch on longlines, in beach nets, and from other unsustainable practices.
A key part of this role is to reduce the effects of fisheries on bycatch of vulnerable species.
In recent years, there has been increasing concern about the bycatch of Atlantic bluefin tuna on their spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) by pelagic longlines targeting yellowfin tuna and swordfish [8], [9], [10].
Chondrichthyans are often caught as incidental, but are often retained as valuable bycatch of fisheries that focus on more productive teleost fish species, such as tunas or groundfishes (Stevens et al., 2005).
Here's an excerpt: The most comprehensive global evaluation of fisheries bycatch impacts on large marine species, published this month in the journal Ecosphere, revealed that sea turtle populations in the East Pacific, North Atlantic, Southwest Atlantic, and Mediterranean face higher bycatch and mortality rates.
Under the Common Fishery Policy, the EC 812/2004 regulation constitutes a legal frame for bycatch monitoring on 5 10% of fishing vessels >15 m.
