Poster Presentations

Bluefin Tuna

Westin Colonnade
Coral Gables (Miami), Florida, USA

Name Presentations
Ahmad Hafizh Adyas, World Wildlife Fund Challenges of Circle Hook Adoption in Indonesian Live Bait Longline Fisheries
Randall Arauz, Programa Restauración de Tortugas Marinas, Pretoma Field studies to evaluate the efficiency of alternative hooks that facilitate the release of sea turtles and other by-catch species in the Pacific longline mahi-mahi fishery of Golfito, Costa Rica
Kamal Bennouna, National Association of Longline Vessels, Morocco Circle Hook testing in the Moroccan pelagic longline fishery
Craig Brown, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Comparison of circle and J-hook catch rates and initial mortality in the US Atlantic pelagic longline fishery
Felipe Carvalho, University of Florida A comparison of circle hook and J-style hook performance in a western equatorial Atlantic Ocean pelagic longline fishery
Chao-Ching Chen, National Kaohsiung Marine University, Taiwan Studies on circle hooks in the Taiwanese distant-water tuna longline fishery
Daniel Curran, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Large circle hook trials in the south Pacific Ocean
Effects of circle hooks on pelagic catches in a tuna longline fishery
Andres Domingo, Dirección Nacional de Recursos Acuáticos (DINARA), Montevideo, Uruguay J-hooks versus circle hooks in the Uruguayan monofilament longline fishery
Daniel Foster, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Evaluation of hook and bait type on the catch rates of target and bycatch species in the Western North Atlantic Ocean pelagic longline fishery
Comparison of 16/0 and 18/0 circle hook catch rates in pelagic longline tuna fisheries
Bryan Fluech, Florida Sea Grant Sea Grant Outreach Activities with Commercial and Recreational Fisheries on the Use of Circle Hooks
Velkiss Gadea, Fauna y Flora Internacional, Nicaragua Sea turtle bycatch in the longline fisheries in the Pacific off Nicaragua: A preliminary analysis of the effect of different hooks
Bruno Giffoni, Fundação Pró-TAMAR The role of circle hooks regarding capture rates of bycatch and target species in the longline fishery in the Southwest Atlantic Ocean
Andrew Gude, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Modification of a standard J-hook design allowing self-release of fish and reducing mortality risks in caught fish
Neil Hammerschlag, University of Miami, R.J. Dunlap Marine Conservation Program Should offset circle hooks be promoted for shark fishing?
Walter Ingram, US National Marine Fisheries Service Effects of bottom longline hook type on catch rate and size of sharks, groupers and snappers in the U.S. western North Atlantic Ocean
Kurt Kawamoto, US National Marine Fisheries Service PIFSC Barbless Circle Hook Project:  Targeted use of barbless circle hooks in the Hawaii shoreline recreational fishery
Kenneth Keene, US National Marine Fisheries Service A circle hook evaluation utilizing data from the Pelagic Observer Program
Steve Kessel, Cardiff University School of Biosciences The use of underwater video surveillance to investigate factors affecting the longline catchability of three shark species on 16/0 circle hooks
Kevin McCarthy, National Marine Fisheries Service Effects of hook design on catch rate and discard mortality in the commercial reef fish vertical line fishery operating in the southeastern USA
Eric Orbesen, National Marine Fisheries Service Effects of hook type on catch and survival of blue shark (Prionace glauca) captured by the US pelagic longline fishery
Management impacts on legal and undersized swordfish (Xiphius gladius) catches in the Gulf of Mexico US pelagic longline fishery
Susanna Piovano, Università di Torino Tests of ringed circle hooks in an Italian longline swordfish fishery
Aaron Podey, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission Promoting the use of circle hooks to Florida’s recreational saltwater anglers
Sayan Promjinda, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, Department of Fisheries, Thailand Promoting the use of circle hooks to Florida’s recreational saltwater anglers
Saúl Sarmiento-Náfate, National Fisheries Institute Efficiency of circles hooks on longlines used in the artisanal fleet in the area of Puerto Angel, Oaxaca, Mexico
Chris Sasso,  National Marine Fisheries Service Ecosystem effects of circle and J-hooks
Joseph Serafy, National Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center Effects of circle hook use on sailfish catch, survival and size structure in the northern Gulf of Mexico pelagic longline fishery
Derke Snodgrass, National Marine Fisheries Service Performance of J- and circle-hooks during recreational hook-and-line fishing: offset and non-offset comparisons
Lesley Stokes, NOAA Fisheries, Southeast Fisheries Science Center Sea turtle incidental bycatch in the US Atlantic pelagic longline fishery: investigating the role of circle hooks in hooking location and bycatch reduction
Yonat Swimmer, National Marine Fisheries Service. Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center Trials with modified circle hooks in pelagic longline fisheries
Erick Villigran, World Wildlife Fund,  Guatemala Experiments with circle hooks for the reduction of incidental catches of marine turtles in the artisanal fisheries for dolphin-fish and sharks off Guatemala
Luis Alonso  Zapata, World Wildlife Fund, Colombia Implementation of a turtle bycatch reduction program through the use of circle hooks in artisanal bottom longline fisheries in the Colombian Pacific