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Frequent Questions: Bering Sea Chinook Salmon Bycatch Electronic Monitoring

American Fisheries Act (AFA) and Community Development Quota (CDQ) Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (BSAI) pollock fisheries electronic monitoring requirements aboard catcher/processors and motherships.

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Oceanic whitetip shark swimming in deep ocean waters. Oceanic whitetip shark. Hawaiʻi longline fishermen use leaders to connect weighed branch lines and baited hooks. A new rule prohibits steel wire leaders in the Hawaiʻi deep-set longline fishery, starting May 31, 2022. The rule aims to increase the survival of hooked oceanic whitetip sharks caught as bycatch in the Pacific Islands region. Credit: Andy Mann