Sentences with phrase «entangling fishing line»

A dive knife is a general tool that scuba divers occasionally use to cut entangling fishing line or rap on their tanks to get a buddy's attention.

«Fishing line not only causes coral tissue injuries and skeleton damage, but also provides an additional surface for potential pathogens to colonise, increasing their capacity to infect wounds caused by entangled fishing line,» Dr Lamb says.

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Adding a particular metal to fishing lines could create an electrical field in seawater that would keep sharks from stealing bait and winding up entangled themselves.

Loon surveyors tell us they observe many activities that are detrimental to loons including: disturbance of nesting sites (as a result of boats, canoes, jet skiis, and water level changes); discarding of entangling debris (fishing lines and domestic garbage); inadvertently attracting and supporting nest predators (raccoons, skunks, and gulls); and displacement of loons through habitat loss.

Whales get entangled in fishing ropes and lines and gear with heartbreaking regularity — 75 percent of right whales have been or are entangled — and humans try to disentangle them.

An injured, entangled California sea lion, its chest wrapped in fishing line that has cut deep into its blubber, eluded capture Thursday during an emergency rescue attempt by the Sausalito - based Marine Mammal Center.

Discarded plastic fishing lines trap and entangle turtles and seabirds, and plastic pieces of all sizes choke and clog the stomachs of creatures who mistake it for food, from tiny zooplankton to whales.

The dolphin's movements were restricted because it had become entangled in fishing line and a hook was lodged in its pectoral fin.