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Resource ID
20013
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Document Number
SC/69A/HIM/09
Full Title
Status report update on the Cetacean Bycatch Mitigation Project in Peninsular Malaysia
Author
Sui Hyang Kuit, Louisa Shobhini Ponnampalam
Authors Summary
Interviews and boat-based surveys conducted between 2013 and 2017 and Bycatch
Risk Assessment (ByRA) in Matang, Peninsular Malaysia, have identified bycatch of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) and Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in inshore gillnets and driftnets and Indo-Pacific finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in off-shore trawls. A project is trialing the use of acoustic pingers on driftnets targeting threadfins to mitigate bycatch of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (primarily) and Irrawaddy dolphins. There are also plans to collaborate with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia to develop and test prototypes of a Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD), which is similar to Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs), mainly for finless porpoises that are caught in trawl nets. Fish catch yield surveys for fisher participants will also be conducted, and time-lapse cameras will also be installed on trawlers to monitor cetacean bycatch from mid-2023 onwards.
Publisher
IWC
Publication Year
2023
Abstract
Interviews and boat-based surveys conducted between 2013 and 2017 and Bycatch
Risk Assessment (ByRA) in Matang, Peninsular Malaysia, have identified bycatch of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (Sousa chinensis) and Irrawaddy dolphins (Orcaella brevirostris) in inshore gillnets and driftnets and Indo-Pacific finless porpoises (Neophocaena phocaenoides) in off-shore trawls. A project is trialing the use of acoustic pingers on driftnets targeting threadfins to mitigate bycatch of Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins (primarily) and Irrawaddy dolphins. There are also plans to collaborate with the Department of Fisheries Malaysia to develop and test prototypes of a Bycatch Reduction Device (BRD), which is similar to Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs), mainly for finless porpoises that are caught in trawl nets. Fish catch yield surveys for fisher participants will also be conducted, and time-lapse cameras will also be installed on trawlers to monitor cetacean bycatch from mid-2023 onwards.