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BYCATCH & PRESENT THREATS Conservation and management strategies should address the incidental capture issue by implementing mitigation methods to reduce dolphin mortality.
Interactions with fisheries are potentially harmful to dolphins (e.g. depletion of fish stocks, direct kills in fisheries, and by-catch in fishing gear) and to man (e.g. gear damage). The incidental capture of marine mammals by commercial fisheries is often a controversial and emotive issue. A potential impact on bottlenose dolphins as a result of human fisheries (aquaculture and fisheries) interaction is death or injury through entanglement in gear. Although perceived conflict of interactions between bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and coastal, small-scale commercial fisheries has been recorded from a number of Mediterranean area, there have been few studies aimed at defining the extent of the conflict. |
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