Sentences with phrase «in gill nets»

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.

A fisherman holding an endangered vaquita porpoise that drowned in a gill net set for sharks and other fish in the Gulf of California.

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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

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..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..in the upper Gulf of California....

In April 2015, Mexican authorities announced a $ 70 million plan to ban gill net fishing in about half of the upper GulIn April 2015, Mexican authorities announced a $ 70 million plan to ban gill net fishing in about half of the upper Gulin about half of the upper Gulf.

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.

«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.