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Gap analysis on the monitoring of marine bird bycatch by British vessels: Report to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs 2024

Abstract

In 2022, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) published their Marine Wildlife Bycatch Mitigation Initiative (BMI), which included an objective to improve the evidence base of bycatch of sensitive marine species. To support this objective, JNCC undertook a gap analysis to assess if there are significant monitoring gaps in existing at-sea data collection programmes which might impact the accuracy of marine bird bycatch estimates.

Monitoring data from three different data collection programmes (UK Bycatch Monitoring Programme, Commercial Catch Sampling Programme for Scottish vessels and the Commercial Catch Sampling Programme in England and Wales) were collated and merged in one database, covering all monitoring data from 2010 to 2019. The main purpose of the Bycatch Monitoring Programme is to collect data on sensitive species bycatch (wider than just seabirds), while the Commercial Catch Sampling Programmes have the main purpose to monitor fishery discards.

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Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2024·07·01

Citation
Kober, K., Clarke, E., Kingston, A., Ribeiro Santos, A., Balestri, E., Coull, K., Anderson, O. & Parsons, M. 2024. Gap analysis on the monitoring of marine bird bycatch by British vessels: Report to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs. JNCC Report 761. JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

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We would like to thank the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, the Marine Directorate of the Scottish Government, the Sea Mammal Research Unit and the Marine Management Organisation for providing the monitoring and fishing effort data required for this work.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2025·02·19

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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