Sentences with phrase «by gill net»

Up until the early 1990s dolphins were highly impacted by gill net and drift net fisheries, many of which are now permanently closed.

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The vaquita porpoise lives in the Gulf of California, Mexico, where illegal fishing with gill nets has slashed the population by a total of 90 per cent in the past five years

Threats made by water pollution, plastics and debris in the ocean, gill net entanglement, oil spills, overharvesting of fisheries, toxins, and pesticides affect even isolated areas like Point Bennett.

Most important, by far, is Nieto's presidential - level affirmation that Mexico will turn what was to be a two - year moratorium on deadly gill nets in vaquita habitat into a permanent ban.

In April, alerted by scientists that the vaquita population had recently suffered its biggest decline ever, the Mexican government announced an emergency two - year ban on gill - net fishing across the porpoise's main habitat in the upper Gulf of California....

I think the Mexican government is quite discouraged by putting a lot of money and effort into enforcement but not enough to stop fishermen illegally setting gill nets at night with continued high prices for illegal wildlife trade with China.»

The fishing innovation is stringing LED lights on gill nets, a technique developed and tested by John Wang of the University of Hawaii and studied in the field by Jesse Senko of Arizona State University.