Sentences with phrase «set gillnets»

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.

Our Wild Pink Salmon are caught in a Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certified fishery using Set Gillnets, Purse Seine, and Driftnet methods.

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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.

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