Abstract
As a result of studies carried out in 2010–2014 it was established that coastal salmon fishery does not have serious negative consequences for the Kittlitz’s murrelet population inhabiting the north-east part of Kamchatka and the adjacent seacoast of Chukotka. The reasons for that are 1) the main salmon fishing gears in Kamchatka are trap and haul nets which, according to their design and operating characteristics, are safe for birds; 2) areas of summer murrelet concentrations and salmon catching by marine gill nets, which represent the greatest threat to birds, were poorly overlapped during our research; 3) on the Kamchatka Bering Sea coast the use of net gears was declined significantly after fishing plots were assigned to fishermen on the basis of a long-term lease in 2009, moreover, the use of gill nets has been prohibited at all marine plots for commercial fishery since 2019. Sporadic cases of Kittlitz’s murrelet bycatch in nets are not excluded, but it is not critical for their population state in the region.
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