Bycatch, the incidental catch of untargeted species in commercial fisheries, is not just about salmon, crab, and other fish. Seabirds are i also caught and killed unintentionally in fishing gear.A newly released annual report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows some mixed but mostly positive J trends for bycatch of birds in Alaska halibut and groundfish harvests. 1Overall, 4,509 birds were killed through bycatch in those fisheries in 2021, a little over two-thirds of the annual average of 6,592 ! reported from 2011 to 2020, according to the report from NOAA's 1 National Marine Fisheries Service.
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