Most research on shark mortality has focused on industrial longline fisheries. We know much less about death rates in gillnet ...

Approximately 50 million more sharks die annually as bycatch in unregulated fisheries, often through the use of destructive and indiscriminate fishing methods such as longlines, gillnets, and trawls.

Tribal entities in the region have voiced strong opposition to the project and any commercial trawl fishing in the region. The Native Village of Savoonga, Native Village of Shishmaref, Aleut Community ...

Environmental impact: Unsustainable fishing practices and the use of trawls also impact other marine species, such as turtles ...