Longline Fishing Article Summary

The main idea in the Watson and Kerstetter (2006) article is to describe the history of longline fishing and the different tools they used to implement this method. They provide possible solutions to the bycatch problem and what bycatch is. They discuss the differences in hooks as they can affect the target species as well as the bycatch species. They supply a definition of bycatch which is understandable and easy to relate to the paper I am writing. In the solutions section, they discuss the hooks as well as look at the migration of sea turtles and other bycatch species. As we continue to look for bycatch solutions, we need to understand where and how it started.
The main idea in the Read, Drinker, and Northridge (2005) article is how bycatch is not only harming the species being caught, but also the species around. They discuss how the interactions with mammals has been increasing and how we continue to increase our demand of certain fish. The article also discusses the error in reporting mammal bycatch and how we need a centralized location to report all bycatch. Although they focus on gill net fishing or trawling instead of long line, this article will still be useful in determining how the marine community is affected by bycatch in every situation.
They also aimed to identify the seabirds caught in bycatch at the study area and how people could reduce the amount of bycatch. They discovered through their experiment that they caught more seabirds at sunrise than the other two times. They were able to use the information gathered to see that the timing of the long line depends on the amount of bycatch of seabirds. This article is excellent to establish possible feeding times of the seabirds, which possibly could be used to graph when to long line