Director's Foreword

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Workshop Agenda

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Section 1: Ecological and Economic Impacts of Bycatches on Fisheries

Session Summary (Peter Larkin)

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The bycatch problem from an economic perspective (Joe Terry)

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Bycatch mortality impacts and control for Pacific halibut (Bruce Leeman)

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Three proposed solutions to bycatch and discard in the North Pacific: focus on the U.S. rocksole fishery (John Gauvin and Joe Blum)

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Section 2: Bycatches and Trawl Fishery

The Pacific groundfish trawl fisheries: bycatch problem and potential solutions (Barry Ackerman)

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Research and development efforts in bycatch elimination in trawl fisheries to British Columbia (Douglas March)

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Development of by-catch reducing trawl gears in NSW's prawn trawl fisheries (Steven Kennelly)

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Use of a semi-pelagic trawl in a tropical demersal trawl fishery (David Ramm)

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Section 3: Bycatches and Passive Gear Fisheries

World bycatches of sharks in high0seas fisheries: appraising the waste of a resource (Ramon Bonfil)

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Management of bycatch in hook-and-line groundfish fisheries off Alaska (Janet Smoker)

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Bycatch of steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and coho (O. kisutch) in the Skeena river sockeye (O. nerka) fishery (Joel Sawada and Art Tautz)

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Section 4: Bycatches and Purse-seine Fisheries

Bycatches in purse-seine fisheries (Martin Hall)

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Bycatch in B.C. purse-seine fisheries: recent experiences in south coast chum salmon fisheries (Paul Ryan)

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Reducing bycatch through gear modifications: the experience of the tuna-dolphin fishery (Harold Medina)

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Section 5: Toward solving the bycatch problem

Bycatch strategies: some success stories and promising approaches (Brad Warren)

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A classification of bycatch problems and some approaches to their solutions (Martin Hall)

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Section 6: Summary of working groups

Technology (Steve Kennelly)

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Policy and Attitudes (Andrew Trites)

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List of Participants

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