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SCS: Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
Gulf of Maine and southern New England between 1994 and 1998. In Canada an unknown number of grey seals are entangled in nets of groundfish gillnet fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador, the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Bay of Fundy, and also in nets of the Atlantic Canada salmon gillnet ... Greenland salmon gillnet and Atlantic Canada cod trap fisheries were ...
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SCS: Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina)
The vast majority of fisheries-related mortality in California is caused by entanglement in gillnet fisheries although the extent of this problem is currently unknown. ... year by entanglement in Alaskan fisheries, particularly gillnet fisheries, but this estimate is unreliable and the figure could be much higher. The U.S. federal National Marine Fisheries Service released a ...
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Florida Museum of Natural History Ichthyology Department
This species is vulnerable as bycatch in nearshore trawl and gillnet fisheries. In addition, hook and line fisheries may have significantly impacted the green sawfish, as the meat, fins ... be marketed. In northern Australia, this species is particularly vulnerable as bycatch in fisheries targeting barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and threadfins (Polynemidae), and it may sometimes be landed ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - The Sharks of the Monterey Bay - Pelagic Sharks
Salmon sharks are often entangled and incidentally captured in gillnet fisheries and typically discarded, however there is a growing interest in their fins for the culinary ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
East Asian rhinid and rhynchobatid gillnet fisheries (W. White, pers. comm.), which are generally unregulated and catches are thought to be poorly recorded (Chen 1996). The target gillnet fishery fleet in Indonesia declined from 500 boats in 1987 to 100 boats in 1996, reportedly due to declining catch rates (Chen 1996). There are no target fisheries for ...
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Leatherback News
WHEREAS pelagic longline and gillnet fisheries are causing unsustainable mortality to sea turtles, seabirds, sharks, bluefin tuna, billfish and ... States and all other nations to institute a moratorium on pelagic longline, gillnet and other fisheries harmful to Pacific leatherback turtles until such activities can be conducted ...
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Marine Mammal Commission
Fisheries Download a copy: PDF (104 KB) Date: May 15, 2006 Recipient: National Marine Fisheries Service Subject: Comments and recommendations regarding protection of mother-calf pairs of right whales from entanglement in gillnet fisheries ...
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Recent Regulations to Protect Marine Turtles - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Protect Marine Turtles - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries Office of Protected Resources OPR Home | About OPR | Species | Permits | Laws & Policies | Programs | Education | ... Clarify the Process for Closing Drift Gillnet Fisheries to Protect Sea Turtles [pdf] (72 FR 4225, January 30, 2007) 2006 Proposed Observer Requirement for Fisheries to Monitor Sea Turtle Bycatch ...
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Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
In addition to multiple non-regulatory provisions for research and education, the BDTRP requires modifications of fishing practices for small, medium, and large-mesh gillnet fisheries from New York to Florida. The BDTRP also established seasonal closures for certain commercial fisheries in state waters. Bottlenose dolphins ...
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Threats
United Nations to issue a moratorium on longline and gillnet fishing, methods they say are wiping out populations of fish, turtles, marine mammals and other ...
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