Sentences with phrase «gill net fishing»
In April 2015, Mexican authorities announced a $ 70 million plan to ban gill net fishing in about half of the upper Gulf.
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Turvey adds: «We witnessed massive amounts of fishing daily along the river, both legal fishing (gill nets) but also large amounts of illegal rolling - hook long - lining and electrofishing, which have long been banned.
So in 2015, the Mexican government banned the use of gill nets for two years and offered compensation to fishers.
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
 The new fishing regulations make it mandatory for all gill nets to be registered, and having visited the site for inspection, officers from the Hol Chan Marine Reserve gave the man a warning and strict instructions to register the net immediately.
Such a ban will also make enforcement of the existing legal restrictions on fishing for totoaba, as gill nets could be found without going to sea.
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....
A fisherman holding an endangered vaquita porpoise that drowned in a gill net set for sharks and other fish in the Gulf of California.
Indeed, while some have pointed fingers at pollution and construction of dams — the Yangtze is home to the world's largest — mostly to blame are local fishing practices that sustain millions of people around the Yangtze but which involve harmful gill nets, rolling hooks or electrical stunning.
The illegal gill - net fishing of totoaba in the northern Gulf of California is causing the vaquita's perilous decline.
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.