Incremental fishing gear modifications fail to significantly reduce large whale serious injury rates

Location
US Atlantic
Article
Incremental fishing gear modifications fail to significantly reduce large whale serious injury rates
Target catch
Lobster (Homarus americanus)
Study Type
Study in the lab
Effect on target catch
N/A
Effect on bycatch species
Annual entanglement rates increased between 1999 and 2009
Bycatch species
Large Cetaceans (maximum length > 7.5 meters)
Balaenoptera acutostrata (Minke whale)
Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale)
Eubalaena glacialis (North Atlantic right whale)
Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback whale)
Fishing Gear
Traps