Sentences with phrase «of gill nets»
So in 2015, the Mexican government banned the use of gill nets for two years and offered compensation to fishers.
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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.»
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
Restrictions on use of drift gill nets, which have a high rate of bycatch, have improved the survival of juvenile sharks.
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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.
Up until the early 1990s dolphins were highly impacted by gill net and drift net fisheries, many of which are now permanently closed.
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....
In April 2015, Mexican authorities announced a $ 70 million plan to ban gill net fishing in about half of the upper Gulf.
A fisherman holding an endangered vaquita porpoise that drowned in a gill net set for sharks and other fish in the Gulf of California.
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.
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.