Purse Seine Guidebook
While several strategies are currently being tested, there are still relatively few proven techniques for reducing the catch of sharks in purse-seine fishing.
However, ISSF continues to sponsor bycatch research cruises to study the most promising strategies, including deterrents and attractors to avoid catching sharks. Further developments in this field will be included in future versions of this guidebook.
Avoidance Measures
Using fully non-entangling FADs without netting will avoid shark entanglement and could be considered a passive avoidance measure to prevent shark bycatch (see section FAD structure impacts).
Non-entangling FAD. Photo: Nando Rivero (ISSF)
