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For the Article Bycatch, elaborate on the types of gears that could cause bycatch. The mechanisms that each gear catches target fish and how the unintended bycatch occurs. Look for statistics on the bycatch rate that might have cause certain species to be threatened or endangered. The details on the characteristics of marine mammals that are effected are unnecessary, listing them (with hyperlink to their own wikipedia page) should be sufficient for enough information and maybe go into more details about the top species that are most heavily impacted by bycatch and the mortality rate of such species.

In the mitigation section, try to elaborate on the functions of bycatch reduction device and how it works to help species escape, and include pingers that are used to help mitigate cetacean and pinniped bycatch. Briefly talk about the success rate. Also mention the bycatch of protected species are heavily regulated and written in to legislative authorities.

References to consider: Marine Mammal Protection Act Endangered Species Act Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species

Bycatch Reduction Device A Global Assessment of Fisheries Bycatch and Discards Defining and estimating global marine fisheries bycatch Weiting(Wendy) Li (talk) 16:27, 25 February 2018 (UTC)