Over the past 12 years, gillnets set by the Kalispel Tribe in the Pend Oreille system have removed nearly 20,000 northern ...
The primary threat facing this shy, small animal is entanglement in fishing gear, particularly gillnets set to catch shrimp, sharks, and other finfish. There has been a recent resurgence in illegal ...
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Researchers raise serious concerns after discovering new species during Atlantic Ocean expedition: 'We are already running against the clock'Gillnets, which hang in the water and trap fish by their gills as they try to back out of the material, are particularly ...
The import ban places enormous pressure on the Mexican government to stop the use of deadly gillnets that are entangling, drowning, and killing the vaquita porpoise, whose population has likely ...
SAN FRANCISCO— The National Marine Fisheries Service agreed today to complete a new assessment of the threat of drift gillnets in California to endangered humpback whales. In the 2020-2021 and ...
However, it faces an existential threat from being caught in large weighted nets, known as gillnets. How 'cocaine of the sea' imperils rare porpoise Rare porpoise dies after rescue effort Dolphins ...
Penguins also drown each year in commercial gillnets. And a pair of diseases, avian diphtheria and, since 2019, a mysterious and fatal respiratory illness, also infect virtually every chick. Janelle ...
The fishing bill's sponsors said large-mesh drift gillnets, which measure between 1 mile (1.6 kilometers) and 1.5 miles (2.4 kilometers) long and can extend 200 feet (60.9 meters) below the ...
The vaquita is the most endangered marine mammal on the planet. Countless vaquitas have been drowned in gillnets, which is their biggest single threat. While only a few vaquitas remain, recent ...
Approximately 50 million more sharks die annually as bycatch in unregulated fisheries, often through the use of destructive and indiscriminate fishing methods such as longlines, gillnets, and trawls.
A Mexican fisherman has died after his boat collided with a larger vessel used by US conservationist group Sea Shepherd, reports say. Sea Shepherd said the clash happened after fishing boats ...
The vaquita, a small dolphin living in the Gulf of Mexico, has been pushed to near-extinction by ghost fishing and bycatch in gillnets. A report released in 2019 by the International Committee for ...
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