Sentences with phrase «gill nets»
Gill nets are fishing nets that have small holes in them, allowing fish to swim through but trapping them by their gills. Full definition
The alarming decline is largely down to the porpoises drowning in gill nets set to capture huge, bass - like fish called totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi).
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So in 2015, the Mexican government banned the use of gill nets for two years and offered compensation to fishers.
In April 2015, Mexican authorities announced a $ 70 million plan to ban gill net fishing in about half of the upper Gulf.
The scientists are pressing for a permanent ban on gill nets in the region.
Across the planet, as here, sharks are being scooped out of the water for their valuable fins as fast as gill nets and long - liners can haul them.
Barney Long, WWF's Asian Species Expert, commented that «These dolphins are at high risk of extinction by their small population size alone... with the added threats of gill net entanglement and high calf mortality, we are seriously concerned about their future.»
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 first pens will be up to 10 metres in diameter and up to 3 metres deep, and will keep the vaquitas away from gill nets, says Rojas - Bracho.
Armed with nylon gill nets and drift nets and a court order issued in May 1961 that gives them the run of their «usual and accustomed» happy fishing grounds, the Indians descended on the unsuspecting steelhead, day in and day out, and en masse.
Last week a slashed gill net (not unlike a ragged scalp) was found tacked to the outside of the town hall with the inscription, «Let's fix them all this way.»
Apart from pollution from the boats, the biggest threat to the turtles comes from plastic gill nets, which can be 2 kilometres long and 30 metres deep.
Three vaquitas killed in gillnets were recovered during surveillance activities last spring and alarming quantities of totoaba gill nets have been found and removed in recent months.
Restrictions on use of drift gill nets, which have a high rate of bycatch, have improved the survival of juvenile sharks.
An official House of Commons e-petition has been launched to suspend Fraser River non-selective gill net fisheries during Thompson River steelhead migration.
Up until the early 1990s dolphins were highly impacted by gill net and drift net fisheries, many of which are now permanently closed.
That restricted range has made this species, the world's smallest porpoise, particularly vulnerable to fishing boats wielding gill nets — many supplying illicit Asian markets for the swim bladder of an endangered fish, the totoaba.
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.
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.»
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.
«We have to find a way to let small - time fishermen put food on their tables that doesn't involve putting gill nets in the water that decimate these species,» Taylor said.
More than a dozen sharks were found dead in illegal gill nets this week around Hollywood beach, prompting the state wildlife commission to open an investigation.
Vessels using gill nets to fish for halibut off the coast of California also had high levels of waste, throwing back 65 % of their catch - because it was too small, or the wrong species.
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.
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.
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.
The vaquita is down to just 60 individuals in the Gulf of California, and Mexico's temporary ban on the use of gill nets isn't enough to save them
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.
To save the vaquita, the Government of Mexico has set aside half of the small porpoise's range as a no - fishing refuge and implemented a two - year ban on all gill net fishing in the range of the species.
Of course, the happy shutterbug couldn't have known that his picture of a dildo keel would soon inspire a plot leading to murder and ensnare human beings like dolphins in a gill net.
 On December 7th, a fisherman was found using a gill net that hadn» t been registered and was reported to the Hol Chan Marine Reserve.
 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.
This «whale» of a shark was caught in a gill net thrown over the side of a 20 foot long boat in Bombay, India!
Olivera also said there has been a grossly unequal distribution of the government compensation funds for not setting out gill nets.
A fisherman holding an endangered vaquita porpoise that drowned in a gill net set for sharks and other fish in the Gulf of California.
The plan promised to compensate fisherman for not using gill nets and offered them alternative, safer nets.
Hall said that he created the film as a subtle indictment of over-fishing and gill nets (it ends on a very sad image), and it's very effective at showing a great number of amazing species in a very short amount of time.