Buoy gear - a potential for bycatch reduction in the small-scale swordfish fisheries: a Florida experience and Indian Ocean perspective

Buoy gear - a potential for bycatch reduction in the small-scale swordfish fisheries: a Florida experience and Indian Ocean perspective

Year of publication 2013

Product type Meeting

Category Meeting document

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) A swordfish buoy gear, an innovative fishing practice developed in USA in early 2000s, provide a possibility of direct swordfish targeting yielding high CPUE of target species and very low bycatch levels. Here we present a summary of US experience and discuss potential application of this gear in the Indian Ocean region in the perspective of small-scale fisheries development and bycatch reduction.

Statutory body / Meeting title Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC)

Meeting symbol IOTC-2013-WPEB09-41

Meeting Session Number 9

Language English