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NOAA Fisheries Feature
High Seas Driftnet Fishing Moratorium Protection Act. Information must be received by April 21, 2008, and can be ... been adopted by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization. The agreement also calls for research on fishing gear modifications to reduce unwanted bycatch of sharks, and identification of areas that serve as ...
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White Water to Blue Water Initiative Paul Niemeier Contact: ext. 189 Arctic Fisheries Convention on the Conservation and Management of Pollock Resources in the Central Bering Sea Large-scale High Seas Driftnet Fishing North Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC) Pacific Salmon Commission (PSC) Southern Indian Ocean Fishing Agreement U.S.-Canada Agreement on Pacific Hake/Whiting U.S.-China U.S ...
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SCS: Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
Northern fur seals due to entanglement in the high seas driftnet fisheries in 1991 but these fisheries have now been discontinued. However Northern fur seals are ... Islands may be being negatively affected by pollution and disturbance caused by the expansion of fishing industry support services on St. Paul Island. It has recently been reported that the waters off ...
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EJF: Illegal driftnetting in the Mediterranean
During the 1980s - at the peak of the high seas driftnet fishery - approximately 50,000km of these nets were being cast into the oceans every night. ... dolphins, whales, turtles and sea birds. The FAO estimate, for example, that during the 1988-89 fishing season up to one million dolphins, whales and porpoises (collectively known as cetaceans) were killed by ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Conservation Action Plan for the World's Cetaceans. IUCN/SSC Cetacean Specialist Group. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. Silvani, L., Gazo, M. and Aguilar, A. 1999. Spanish driftnet fishing and incidental catches in the western Mediterranean. Biological Conservation 90: 79-85. Tregenza, N.J.C. and Collet, A. 1998. Common dolphin Delphinus delphis bycatch in pelagic trawl and ...
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Oak Foundation: Marine Environment Europe
To reduce bottom trawling by the EU fleet by 40 per cent; help change fishing practices in the longline and driftnet fisheries to reduce the capture and killing of marine mammals, and eliminate the illegal dumping of ship oil by EU vessels into European oceans and seas. To support Oceana's international Seafood Contamination Campaign to reduce mercury emissions to the environment. (Over ...
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EJF: David Gandy & EJF Save the Sea - new film footage!
At a time when world fish stocks are under unprecedented pressure, pirate fishing operations are stealing from our seas and oceans. Join EJF and help us Save the Sea Watch 'behind the scenes' ... s fisheries -- these are known as `by-catch'. In one 8 month period 4 illegal, "pirate", Moroccan driftnet vessels caught 237 dolphins; 498 blue sharks; 542 short-fin mako; 464 thresher sharks; and 46 ...
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