Sentences with phrase «of gillnet»

The plan will be implemented in tandem with ongoing efforts to remove the threat of gillnets in the Upper Gulf of California and eliminate illegal fishing.

-- Mexico will make permanent a ban on the use of gillnets in all fisheries throughout the range of the vaquita in the upper Gulf of California;

With the introduction of gillnets in the mid-1960s, the huge fish all but disappeared (though environmental destruction resulting from the Hoover Dam contributed too).

Not exact matches

Despite strong enforcement, illegal gillnets are still being set to catch an endangered fish known as totoaba, the swim bladders of which fetch large sums of money on Hong Kong and Chinese black markets.

The precipitous decline of the vaquita has been primarily driven by accidental deaths of the porpoises in fishing gillnets.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

In June of 2017, the ban on gillnet fishing was made permanent.

There's other collateral damage, too: Trawling and bottom - set gillnets (which are left on the seafloor and then hauled up) can contain up to 20 % «bycatch» of unwanted species, such as deepwater sharks.

The vaquitas, whose popular name translates as «little cow,» are dying at an accelerated rate because of an increase in the illegal gillnet fishery for the totoaba (Totoaba macdonaldi).

An international team of scientists says that the critically endangered vaquita, a species of porpoise (Phocoena sinus) found only in Mexico's Gulf of California, is fast approaching extinction and that all gillnet fishing in the animal's range must be banned.

The study drew upon the Southwest Fisheries Science Center's collection of skin tissue samples gathered from dolphins inadvertently entangled in gillnets off Southern California from 1991 to 2008, highlighting the value of that collection over time.

Dan Nichols was hauling in a gillnet laden with the fruits of a late - season Alaskan salmon run when something heavy flopped out of it, then slid to the front of his boat.

That very feeling of helplessness led experts at The Marine Mammal Center to develop innovative rescue techniques that allow them to remove entanglements, mostly gillnets, from wild marine mammals without risking human lives in the process.

It further recommends increased efforts to introduce alternatives to gillnet fishing in the communities that will be affected by enforcement of the exclusion zone.

Officials have failed to enforce past limits on gillnet fishing, and boats regularly sneak into what had once been a small vaquita refuge of about 480 square miles.

While Mexico's gillnet ban is an important step forward in vaquita conservation, it will be unlikely to prevent extinction of the species unless there is a lasting commitment to rigorous enforcement to stop illegal fishing.

-- Both countries will redouble efforts, in collaboration with international experts, to develop alternative fishing gear to gillnets that does not result in the entanglement of vaquita and establish «vaquita - safe» fisheries;

Sea Shepherd crew saves the life of an adult leatherback turtle entangled in illegal gillnet in the Upper Gulf of California, Mexico — a Federally Protected and UNESCO listed Area.

Members of the program must demonstrate that they are not selling any shark products and that seafood that is offered, be cause with shark safe techniques, such as no «longlines, fish aggregating devices, gillnets or trawl netting.»

Gillnets targeting swordfish and thresher sharks are set off of Southern California and are typically a mile - long in diameter.