Seabird Bycatch Estimates for Alaska Groundfish Fisheries: 2019

NOAA Fisheries annually updates estimates of seabirds caught as bycatch in commercial groundfish and halibut fisheries operating in Federal waters off Alaska. This annual report details seabird bycatch estimates by gear type for the years 2010 through 2019. It supplements the “Seabird Bycatch and Mitigation Efforts in Alaska Fisheries Summary Report: 2007 through 2015” (Eich et al. 2016),  which has been supplemented previously with data through 2018 (Krieger et al. 2019). The focus of this report is to add and describe seabird bycatch data for 2019. This report presents bycatch estimates from the following gear types: demersal longline, pelagic trawl, non-pelagic trawl, and pot.