Sentences with phrase «as gillnets»

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Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.

There's other collateral damage, too: Trawling and bottom - set gillnets (which are left on the seafloor and then hauled up) can contain up to 20 % «bycatch» of unwanted species, such as deepwater sharks.

The vaquitas, whose popular name translates as «little cow,» are dying at an accelerated rate because of an increase in the illegal gillnet fishery for the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi).

Having declined over 90 per cent in just 20 years, the vaquita continues to plummet toward extinction despite a two - year ban on gillnet fishing that began in May 2015, as well as surveillance efforts by Mexico's government, environmental authorities and military.

Members of the program must demonstrate that they are not selling any shark products and that seafood that is offered, be cause with shark safe techniques, such as no «longlines, fish aggregating devices, gillnets or trawl netting.»