One Change, Two Wins: How Adding Lights to Trawl Nets Can Help Eulachon and B.C.’s Shrimp Fishery

Published by: David Suzuki Foundation
Authored by: Scott Wallace

Oceans and fresh water, Biodiversity British Columbia, fisheries and aquaculture, conservation, policy and regulation

Fishing with lights isn’t permitted in Canada, but trials indicate it is a good way to reduce eulachon bycatch in the shrimp fishery.  Shrimp fishers who trialed LED lights reported that fishing with lights was an extremely effective way to reduce bycatch.