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Translating the terrestrial mitigation hierarchy to marine megafauna bycatch
In terrestrial and coastal systems, the mitigation hierarchy is widely and
increasingly used to guide actions to ensure that no net loss of biodiversity
ensues from development. We develop a conceptual model which applies
this approach to the mitigation of marine megafauna bycatch in fisheries,
going from defining an overarching goal with an associated quantitative
target, through avoidance, minimisation, remediation to offsetting. We
demonstrate the framework's utility as a tool for structuring thinking and
exposing uncertainties. We draw comparisons between debates ongoing in
terrestrial situations and in bycatch mitigation, to show how insights from
each could inform the other; these are the hierarchical nature of
mitigation, out-of-kind offsets, research as an offset, incentivising
implementation of mitigation measures, societal limits and uncertainty. We
explore how economic incentives could be used throughout the hierarchy to improve the achievement of bycatch goals. We conclude by highlighting the
importance of clear agreed goals, of thinking beyond single species and
individual jurisdictions to account for complex interactions and policy
leakage, of taking uncertainty explicitly into account, and of thinking
creatively about approaches to bycatch mitigation in order to improve
outcomes for conservation and fishers. We suggest that the framework set
out here could be helpful in supporting efforts to improve by catch
mitigation efforts, and highlight the need for a full empirical application to
substantiate this
Atmospheric disturbances in relation to horizontal axis wind turbines and the construction of two research machines
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