Marine mammal and fisheries interactions in Galicia, north-west Spain

23rd Annual Conference of the European Cetacean Society,“Climate Change and Marine Mammals”, Istanbul, Turkey, 2-4 March 2009
Galicia, north-west Spain, is one of the world’s main fishing regions and fishing is an important component of the economy. Previous interview surveys with fishermen five and ten years ago highlighted a high (up to 1700 cetaceans per year) and potentially unsustainable cetacean by-catch rate