Purse Seine Guidebook
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Introduction
- Avoid Bycatch
- Minimize the Risk of Capture
- Reduce Bycatch Mortality
- Offset Unavoidable Bycatch Mortality
- 1. Sharks and Rays
- Sharks and Rays Commonly Encountered
- Reducing Shark and Ray Bycatch
- Target Large Schools
- Attract Sharks Out of the Net
- Fish Sharks in the Net to Release Them
- Modify Fishing Gear
- On Deck Safe Handling and Releasing Techniques
- Manual Handling Do’s
- Handling Medium Sharks
- Handling Stingrays
- Handling and Release with Bycatch Release Devices
- Light Equipment
- Shark Release Ramps with Hopper
- Mobulid Sorting Grids (with Vessel’s Crane)
- Releasing Whale Sharks
- Shark Handling and Release Do’s
- Shark Handling and Release Don’ts
- End Wasteful Shark Finning
- 2. Sea Turtles
- Most Common Bycaught Sea Turtle Species
- 3. Selective Tuna Fishing: Reducing Catch of Small Bigeye & Yellowfin Tuna
- Species Identification
- Yellowfin (30-45 cm)
- Bigeye (30-45cm)
- Yellowfin (46-110cm)
- Bigeye (46-110 cm)
- Yellowfin (>110 cm)
- Bigeye (>110 cm)
- Fisher Cooperation and Input
- Chapter 4
- Introduction
- International Organizations and Instruments
- Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission
- Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
- International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
- Indian Ocean Tuna Commission
- Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
- Further Notes on Data Reporting and Compliance
- Conclusion
- Credits and Citations
By reading this guidebook, you are ensuring that the vessels you skipper are compliant with the skipper training measure.
The ISSF Skipper Training Conservation Measure requires that ISSF Participating Companies transact business only with vessels whose skippers have:
- Reviewed this purse-seine skippers guidebook, which is available as a downloadable PDF (multiple languages) or online (English only) at issfguidebooks.org. The guidebooks contain information on bycatch handling and mitigation, non-entangling and biodegradable FADs, mitigating ecosystem impacts, RFMO requirements, and other useful information about fishing sustainably OR
- Attended an in-person and/or online ISSF skippers workshop on sustainable fishing practices OR
- Attended an in-person skippers workshop conducted by a trainer that has been accredited by ISSF to conduct these workshops OR
- Viewed an ISSF skippers workshop video online
Completion Form
You have now completed the review of the Skippers’ Guidebook to Sustainable Purse Seine Fishing Practices.
For ISSF to record this activity and ensure that the vessel(s) you skipper receive(s) credit for meeting the related ISSF Conservation Measure, you MUST follow the link below to complete a short online completion form.
You will need to be connected to the Internet to submit the form. If you do not currently have Internet (wi-fi) access, please return to this page to complete this step when wi-fi is available.