Sentences with phrase «other bycatch»

Not exact matches

Instead of using advanced (and relatively untested) technology to attempt to repel sharks or nondiscriminatory nets that kill other threatened sea life as bycatch, researchers have simply caught sharks and moved them to where they would not pose a threat to swimmers.

Industrial overfishing practices have wiped out certain types of fish before they've had a chance to repopulate, and unintentionally killed other marine species besides fish — known as «bycatch» — in their large nets.

This is a «really conservative» measure, he says, since the U.S. takes more steps than other fishing nations to reduce bycatch.

Sharks are sensitive to overfishing, both as bycatch for fisherman seeking other fish and as targets for sport or in areas where shark meat is a delicacy.

For example, the use of spatial zoning to reduce the overlap of fisheries, oil rigs and shipping lanes with areas of the ocean used by penguins; the use of appropriate fishing methods to reduce the accidental bycatch of penguins and other species; and, the use of ecologically based fisheries harvesting rules to limit the allowable catches taken by fishermen, particularly where they target species that are also food for penguins.»

In other words, vaquita are bycatch — the unintended victims of fishing — and this has brought vaquita to the edge of extinction.

Offshore fishing for herring, mackerel, and other species could contribute to the problem, since young shad may be taken as bycatch.

Numerous studies have shown that fishing bycatch kills an alarming number of sea turtles each year, and the threats posed by many other human activities are well documented.

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.

Other than hunting, marine mammals can be killed as bycatch from fisheries, where they become entangled in fixed netting and drown or starve.

50,000,000 of those are «bycatch» while fishing for other fish... they are thrown back into the sea dead.

WWF lists several reasons: poor fisheries management; fishing pirates that don't respect fishing laws or agreements; massive bycatch of young fish and other marine species; subsidies that keep too many boats on the water; destructive fishing practices; and unfair Fisheries Partnership Agreements that allow foreign fleets to overfish in the waters of developing countries.

The IWC is the body charged with regulating whaling and addressing the vast number of other threats to whales, dolphins and porpoises in our oceans such as shipping, climate change, and bycatch.

Vaquitas are killed as bycatch, meaning they are caught in the nets of other marine species that are hunted and fished.

The fish served Monday was caught in the Gulf of Mexico using gear that specifically targets those sustainable tuna species, while reducing the unwanted bycatch of others, such as bluefin tuna, one of the globe's most in - demand, delicious and depleted fish.

Tremendous waste ensues because, in the case of shrimpers, no one wants to eat any of the other species that thrive in the Gulf of Mexico and are often caught as bycatch while trawling for shrimp.

Sea turtles are under enormous threat as they're caught as bycatch in fisheries, and lose their habitats to overfishing, pollution, and other human encroachment — including poaching and rampant sea turtle egg collection.

A solution to the problem of birds as bycatch could not only benefit this threatened bird, but also many other seabird species.