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SoundNet - Ocean Crisis Caused by Destructive Fishing
United States and provides an expert ranking for each gear type. The overall ecological impacts associated with bottom trawls, bottom gillnets, dredges and midwater or drift gillnets ranked relatively high, with bottom trawling topping the list as the most ecologically harmful gear type. The impacts from hook and line fishing, purse seines and midwater trawls ...
www.oceania.org.au
SCS: South American Sea Lion (Otaria flavescens)
There are also widespread interactions with trawl fisheries, the opportunistic male sea lions often following trawl boats and being shot or becoming entangled in the trawl nets. Drift gill net fisheries may also result in the bycatch of sea lions when deployed along their transit routes. Dynamiting ...
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SCS: South American Fur Seal (Arctocephalus australis)
South American fur seal tends to feed out at sea. However some interactions with salmon farms in Chile have been reported. Drift gill nets placed in the transit routes of fur seals may also contribute significantly to mortality of the species in Peru and Chile. The impact of intensive commercial fishing is thought to affect available food resources and has ...
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NCMC Conservation News - NMFS Considering Allowing Longlines in the Pacific
However, the applicant has stated the purpose of his experiment is to determine whether drift gillnet gear could be phased out in favor of establishing a longline fishery of over 70 ... that a full-scale longline fishery could be an "environmentally friendly" alternative to the tightly-restricted drift gill net fishery. The applicant claims that bycatch will be less than in the driftnet ...
savethefish.org
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JUNE 1998 - Shark Finning National Marine Fisheries Service permits American fishing vessels based in Honolulu, Hawai'i, to trans-ship thousands of pounds of shark fin from foreign fishing vessels using drift gill nets. In April, 1998, NMFS authorized a longline fishing vessel (CHRIS) to rendezvous with a foreign fishing vessel and pick ...
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Sharks
NMFS in Hawaii has authorized the transshipment of shark fins from boats that fish anywhere in the world. The sharks are either intentionally caught or are the by catch of other fishing activity. These may include longlines, drift gill nets, or pair trawling. The majority of the sharks are brought along side or aboard the vessels where the fishermen cut off ...
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Giant Sharks of the Bay (Chesapeake, Hudson, San Francisco)
During the day they peer out for any edible material to drop or drift by, such as an anglers' baits and lures. As the edible item comes by, the shark reaches out its ... to take naps in spring fed caverns in tropical waters, looking alot like a shark slumber party. Seven gill sharks, the megamouth shark (which has a habit of eating anchors and gets 20 feet long), and many ...
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ECO-PROS Human Impact on Oceans
Fishing Methods: Types described: Beam trawl, Demersal otter trawl, Multi-rig trawl, Dive-caught, Dredging, Drift net, Fish attraction devices, Fish farming, Gill or fixed nets, Handline, Jigging, Trolling, Hand-gathering / picking / collection, Harpoon, Hydraulic dredges, Industrial fishing, Long-lining, Pelagic trawl, Pole and line, ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - In the News
With their keen sense of smell, the sharks will detect that. So we set up the boat to drift on a particular course, we throw the lure out with the bait, and then as we drift along ... were observing a number of sharks that carried debris from commercial fishing such as swordfish harpoon lanyards and gill-netting. As a fisherman I recognised that as equipment that was only used offshore. And ever since ...
www.pelagic.org
U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Examples of techniques now in use include gill nets that entrap fish more effectively, the use of ever larger purse seines, and drift nets that ... fishing gear on the conservation of natural resources, the situation can be all too easily overstated. Gill nets and drift nets, for example, pose a threat to fish stocks only to the extent that the ...
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