NOAA is inviting public comment on its draft National Bycatch Reduction Strategy. The proposal continues the nation’s momentum on reducing bycatch--when fishermen catch fish they don’t want, can’t keep, or aren’t allowed to keep.
![Researchers tag a dusky shark as part of a Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program-funded study to record its behavior. (Image credit: NOAA, University of New England) Researchers tag a dusky shark as part of a Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program-funded study to record its behavior.](/sites/default/files/styles/landscape_width_1275/public/legacy/image/2019/Jun/photo-tagged%20shark-02242016-1120x534-landscape.jpg?itok=twywZ6QN)
Researchers tag a dusky shark as part of a Bycatch Reduction Engineering Program-funded study to record its behavior. (Image credit: NOAA, University of New England)