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Seal Conservation Society: 1997 News Digest
Increasing sea lion mortality in squid fishery trawl nets has led to the decision to draw up a new management plan for the species ... of their numbers. The fishermen argue that the fur seals and sea lions are destroying their nets and stealing their catch whereas conservationists argue that the interactions of these animals with the ...
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SCS: South American Sea Lion (Otaria flavescens)
Drift gill net fisheries may also result in the bycatch of sea lions when deployed along their transit routes. Dynamiting of ... the rapidly expanding salmon farming industry, especially in Chile, sea lions becoming entangled in the protective nets around the farms or being shot by fish farmers to protect their stocks. In 1999 the ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - How Fish are Caught or Farmed
Purse seines are primarly used for schooling fish Fishermen use this method to catch schooling fish, such ... trawlers catch fish that live on or near the seafloor, such as cod, flounder and shrimp. Trawl nets catch everything in their path and can damage the seafloor Pelagic trawlers often accidentally catch ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Pollution (affecting habitat and/or species) - Water pollution - Sediment (ongoing) Conservation Actions Conservation Actions: The introduction of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in trawl nets of some Australian fisheries, has significantly reduced their capture of large elasmobranchs (Brewer et al. 1998), however TEDs are not mandatory in several trawl fisheries in northern ...
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Gold Seal - Alaska Salmon: Wild, Sustainable, Pure
They must float at the surface where their catch can be observed. All nets are limited in their length, depth, and periods of operation, as are the gear and operation of troll (hook) gear. Trawl nets are not allowed for salmon. The fishing gear itself, and the way it is fished, virtually eliminates incidental catch of ...
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Dolphin Care UK -
More recently, tests have been made on devices to allow dolphins to escape from pelagic trawl nets. In March 2004, the European Commission introduced a new regulation aimed at reducing the bycatch ... that during the months January - March, 2003 - 3000 dolphins died due to entanglement in the nets of pair trawlers fishing for sea bass in the English Channel / Western Approaches. The countries using ...
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EJF: Impacts of bycatch
European Union's fishing industry. However, the fine meshed trawl nets used to capture brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) also incidentally catch high levels of non- ... fisheries are particularly indiscriminate in their capture of non-target marine life or "bycatch". Shrimp trawl fisheries alone are responsible for around one third of the world's discarded bycatch, despite ...
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EJF: Impacts at Sea and On Land
For example, common infractions in the region include the use of trawl nets with mesh of a smaller than permitted size, destructive bottom trawling, and fishing within the ... cuttlefish), shrimp and demersal (bottom living) fish. In Guinea, for instance, the licensed demersal fish trawl fishery is estimated to discard 25% of its catch, the cephalopod fishery 27%, and the ...
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EuroTurtle - Preventative measures
A trap door known as a Turtle Excluder Device, (TED), can be installed into trawl nets at a low cost ($50-$400). These do not impair the performance of the net but allow ... heavy, they increase the mass of the catch considerably. This means that the fishing vessel has to trawl a much heavier net through the water than it would want to, thus wasting fuel. The implementation of ...
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EuroTurtle - Incidental catching of Turtles
Photo: C.Morris 1996 - Kefalonia In the case of Trawl-nets, the turtles are "scooped-up" by the net. Having entered the net they very rarely find a way out due to the sheer size of the trawl. In a similar way, those turtles which come into contact with a drift-net are dragged along by it. The ...
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