• Causes of Commercial Fishing Gear Loss in Canada

    Department of Fisheries and Oceans is conducting research to better understand the impacts of abandoned, lost, otherwise discarded fishing gear (ALDFG) on commercial fish stocks and the environment. DFO has developed an anonymous survey to better understand the types of fishing gear commonly lost, the causes of loss, and the practices used to avoid loss. There is no personal information collected in the survey. It should take about 20 minutes to complete. Thank you for completing this survey. Version française: https://form.jotform.com/252674381565162

  • A. Harvester Information

  • 2. Please select the option(s) that best describes you:
  • 3. What Coast are you working from?
  • 4. In which Pacific fishery do you fish? If you fish in multiple fisheries, please select each fishery (4 maximum).
  • 4. In which Atlantic fishery do you fish? If you fish in multiple fisheries, please select each fishery (4 maximum).
  • 4. In which Arctic fishery do you fish? If you fish in multiple fisheries, please select each fishery (4 maximum).

  • B. Fishing Gear Used

    These questions ask about the types of fishing gear you use
  • 8. What types of gear do you use?
  • 10. If you fish using nets, describe the average dimensions (width and length) of the nets in meters by fishing area.
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  • C. Amount of Lost and Retrieved Fishing Gear

    These questions ask about how much fishing gear is lost per year
  • 11. How many individual gear items are lost per year? Use an average of your gear loss over the last 5 years. Include all items lost, even you retrieved it later. Subsequent questions will ask about retrieval.
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  • 13. How many gear items which were lost did you subsequently retrieve?
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  • D. Causes and Strategies to Prevent Gear Loss

    These questions ask about why gear is lost, and what strategies are used to prevent loss.

  • You indicated you fish in the following fisheries:

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    Please complete the next section (questions 15-19) for each of these fisheries, up to four fisheries. If you participate in more than four fisheries (in the order listed above), only answer for the four fisheries you spend the most fishing effort in. 

    • Fishery 1: Causes and Strategies to Prevent Gear Loss 
    • 15-1. When gear is lost, what are the most frequent causes of loss? Answer each line by selecting one of the five possible responses provided.
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    • 18-1. What practices do you use to avoid gear loss or damage? Answer each line by selecting one the five possible responses provided.
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    • Fishery 2: Causes and Strategies to Prevent Gear Loss 
    • 15-2. When gear is lost, what are the most frequent causes of loss? Answer each line by selecting one of the five possible responses provided.
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    • 18-2. What practices do you use to avoid gear loss or damage? Answer each line by selecting one the five possible responses provided.
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    • Fishery 3: Causes and Strategies to Prevent Gear Loss 
    • 15-3. When gear is lost, what are the most frequent causes of loss? Answer each line by selecting one of the five possible responses provided.
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    • 18-3. What practices do you use to avoid gear loss or damage? Answer each line by selecting one the five possible responses provided.
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    • Fishery 4: Causes and Strategies to Prevent Gear Loss 
    • 15-4. When gear is lost, what are the most frequent causes of loss? Answer each line by selecting one of the five possible responses provided.
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    • 18-4. What practices do you use to avoid gear loss or damage? Answer each line by selecting one the five possible responses provided.
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    • E. Practices for End-of-Life Fishing Gear

      These questions ask about your methods for handling and disposing of fishing gear when it can no longer be used (at its end-of-life).
    • 20. How do you manage/dispose of your end-of-life fishing gear?
    • 23. If you use waste management facilities to dispose of end-of-life gear, is there a charge to use the facilities?
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