Bycatch Movie

A short presentation on the problem of Bycatch in commercial fishing. Netting fish is non-selective, so many non-target species are caught in the process. Some of these may even be commercially valuable, but fishermen have to return them to satisfy the conditions of their set quota.
The video is a 2 minute presentation used for an Undergraduate Marine Biology course designed to inform the public and focus attention on the problem of Bycatch, as well as ending with a short section on technological methoids developed to reduce bycatch in the last few years.
References: Videos: Blue Planet DVD 5

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Tags:

• ocean
• sea
• fishing
• fish
• politics
• net

[Vetty155]

I hope you do realise that most fisherman actually care about their resource. Don't always blame the fishermen. Corporately owned fishing fleets (the ones who give lots of money to the government) and foreign fishing vessels cause the most problems. Also, the seal population is out of control in Atlantic Canada.

[tomharper]

Yes thanks. The movie quotes international statistics on the problem of bycatch, it doesn't reference any parties personally, this is a global problem not a local one. Seal culling is what you are referring to, and isn't anything to do with Bycatch.

Thanks

[txkingfisher]

Fuck you stupid motherfuckers! You dont even know what the fuck you are talking about!!!

[tomharper]

I think the focus was on the problem of bycatch on ways to decrease it, not so much remove fishermen altogether, I appreciate they are just making a living, and fair play to them

[Nubs926]

So what? Only hippies would care about this, honestly. ><

[tomharper]

You cared enough to comment!

[SSCSactivist]

Good video about a much forgotten but important issue.

[zingtea]

Care to say something remotely related or intelligent?

[roxyapoxy]

I agree that bycatch is a problem, but aquaculture only exacerbates our climate crisis by creating filthy ponds that eventually have to be completely abandoned because the fish can no longer survive in them. To extend the life of the pond, the owners often use toxic chemicals and antibiotics on the fish. These chemicals leach into groundwater and pollute our environment. Stop destroying the only planet we'll ever have. Go Vegan!

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[lyonka24]

@Vetty155 The seal population is on the rise but if you look up the numbers it is not impacting the fisheries as bad as the bycatch.. but as a fisherman myself I can admit that we all just use seals and sea lions as a scapegoat. other then that there are several factors not just a single one, such as habitat degradation, global warming, pollution, invasive species, etc.

[lyonka24]

@lyonka24 Other then that good job on showing some of the better nets =)

[lyonka24]

@lyonka24 Aquaculture is not the solution. The USDFW and NOAA are already looking for safe alternatives to nets that promote a lower yield of bycatch. Your video is just showing the negitves, you need to include the positives that our gov't is working for and the already positve yields. As a Fisheries and Wildilfe Student at Oregon State University I am just asking that you make sure you know what you are showing and all the backup research to make a video that just doesn't make people protest.

[lyonka24]

I hope that you also realize what damages aquaculture can impose on native fisheries! For example: Lionfish.

Lionfish were never native to the east coast and in 1985 Hurricane Andrew caused several Lion Fish to get into our coastal water off of Florida. They haven't determined where they came from; personal tanks, or the aquarium but their population shot up so quickly that they are depleating naitive fish species. The lion fish in this area are twice the size they are in their naitive habitat.

[strikenetter]

Bycatch ? lol, ha ha ha, Florida law requires fisherman to use nets which have a 98 % bycatch rate, you don't know the half of it !!!!!!!

[MrAirbiscut]

Aquqculture might eliminate the bycatch issue but it increases the pollution in the area where it occurs. Also how about escapment of farmed species? Disease? that's an issue unto itself. How do you think they get the huge amounts of feed fish needed for aquaculture? I'm going to guess it's with non selective small mesh netting. Aquqculture's not as clean as it sounds.

[strikenetter]

Did you know fisherman here in NC are required to catch and kill " bycatch" in order to harvest other species ? To keep 50 lbs of striped bass i have to kill 50 lbs of an invaluable specie to save the stripers ! Genius logic by intelligent biologists !