Adds to the knowledge base of seabird incidental mortality in commercial fisheries, and emphasizes the importance of comprehensive solutions, The product of a 1999 symposium held by the Pacific Seabird Group, it is a response to the escalating seabird bycatch, a global conservation and fisheries management issue. The editors discuss techniques to measure bycatch in fisheries worldwide, obstacles to solving bycatch, and viable bycatch solutions.