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Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team

The Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team is one of several take reduction teams established to help develop plans to mitigate the risk to marine mammals posed by fishing gear. We established the Team in 1996 and it is composed of fishermen,…
New England/Mid-Atlantic

Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan

With the help of the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Team, we developed the Atlantic Large Whale Take Reduction Plan in 1997 to reduce the level of serious injury and mortality of three strategic stocks of large whales (North Atlantic right, humpback…
New England/Mid-Atlantic

Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan

We implemented the Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Plan to reduce interactions between harbor porpoise and commercial gillnet gear capable of catching multispecies in both the New England and the Mid-Atlantic.
New England/Mid-Atlantic

Atlantic Trawl Take Reduction Team

In 2006, the team was formed to address the incidental mortality and serious injury of long-finned pilot whales, short-finned pilot whales, common dolphins, and white-sided dolphins incidental to the Mid-Atlantic mid-water trawl fishery, as well as other…
New England/Mid-Atlantic

Draft False Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan

The False Killer Whale Take Reduction Plan is to help reduce interactions between false killer whales and Hawai'i's pelagic longline fisheries.
September 07, 2018 - Strategic Plans ,
Pacific Islands

Pacific Offshore Cetacean Take Reduction Plan

The goal of the Pacific Offshore Cetacean Take Reduction Plan (Plan) is to reduce serious injuries and deaths of several marine mammal stocks incidental to the California/Oregon thresher shark/swordfish drift gillnet fishery.
National

False Killer Whale Take Reduction

In January 2010, we established a Take Reduction Team to address the incidental mortality and serious injury of false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens) in the Hawaii-based deep-set and shallow-set longline fisheries.
Pacific Islands

Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan

The goal of the Bottlenose Dolphin Take Reduction Plan (Plan) is to reduce deaths and serious injuries of Atlantic coastal bottlenose dolphins incidental to commercial fishing.
Southeast
National

Pelagic Longline Take Reduction Plan

The Take Reduction Team, under section 118 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), is charged with developing a take reduction plan (Plan) to reduce bycatch of pilot whales in the Atlantic pelagic longline fishery to a level approaching a zero…
National

Marine Mammal Take Reduction Plans and Teams

Learn more about the importance of take reduction plans and teams in NOAA Fisheries' efforts to steward national marine resources.
National