Monitoring and elimination of bycatch of endangered and conserved species in the NE and high seas Atlantic region.

兼捕，即在捕捞过程中无意捕获非目标海洋动物，被认为是全球海洋物种面临的最大威胁之一。这一威胁对受保护、濒危和受威胁的物种(宠物)尤其严重，包括海洋哺乳动物、海鸟、海龟和敏感鱼种，它们的副渔获物威胁海洋生态系统健康。虽然兼捕宠物被认为是一个重要的问题，但由于目前无法有效地监测范围广泛、高度机动和隐蔽的物种，在充分了解宠物面临的风险方面取得的进展有限。在降低此类风险的方法方面进一步缺乏进展。这些问题都阻碍了会员国消除和大幅减少兼捕的能力。MarineBeacon将应对这些挑战，在区域海洋范围内开展工作，找出在理解方面存在重大差距的地方，并采用创新办法产生知识和工具，以更好地了解副渔获物的风险和脆弱性。将制作和开发下一代监测工具，以增进对宠物的分布和数量的了解，以及它们与渔业互动的程度。然后，将在不同的渔业和区域广泛测试尖端缓解工具和技术，以确保产生可转让的产出，大大减轻副渔获物风险。MarineBeacon将通过采用以利益相关者为中心的方法，在整个项目中与利益相关者接触和合作，以产生最佳可接受的解决方案，从而促进政策、管理和行业对其目标产出的吸收和采用。

Bycatch, the unintentional capture of non-target marine animals during fishing, is considered one of the greatest threats to marine species globally. This threat is particularly significant for protected, endangered and threatened species (PETS), including marine mammals, seabirds, turtles and sensitive fish species, with their bycatch threatening marine ecosystem health. While bycatch of PETS is recognized as a significant issue, advances in fully understanding risks to PETS have been limited, due to current inability to effectively monitor wide ranging, highly mobile and cryptic species. There has been further lack in advancement in approaches to reduce such risks. These issues all hinder Member States ability to eliminate and significantly reduce bycatch. MarineBeacon will respond to these challenges, working across a regional seas scale to identifying where significant gaps in understanding lie, and adopt innovative approaches to produce the knowledge and tools to better understand bycatch risk and vulnerability. Next generation monitoring tools will be produced and developed to improve understanding of the distribution and abundance of PETS in addition to the levels in which they interact with fisheries. Cutting-edge mitigation tools and techniques will then be extensively tested across diverse fisheries and regions to ensure transferable outputs are generated to significantly mitigate against bycatch risk. MarineBeacon will facilitate the uptake and adoption of its targeted outputs by policy, management, and industry by adopting a stakeholder centered approach, engaging and collaborating with stakeholder throughout the project to producing best acceptable solutions. Importantly, MarineBeacon will ensure long-term applicability and impact of outputs beyond the lifetime of the project through the production of a suite of decision support tools to ensure all measures to better monitor PETS and mitigate against bycatch risk are effectively targeted.