A Washington Sea Grant staff scientist is sharing top honors for developing gear that nearly eliminates seabird bycatch in long-line fisheries from the West Coast to South Africa. Twenty years of work on sea and land to save threatened seabirds from becoming fishing bycatch have won national recognition for senior fisheries scientist, Ed Melvin, also an affiliate associate professor in the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. The research project he leads, which develops, tests and promotes bird-scaring streamer lines for long-line fishing vessels, this week received the 2015 Presidential Migratory Bird Federal Stewardship Award. It went to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Fisheries Seabird Program, which funds some of Melvin’s research.
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