Sentences with phrase «illegal gill nets»
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.
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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.
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
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 illegal gill - net fishing of totoaba in the northern Gulf of California is causing the vaquita's perilous decline.