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SCS: Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus)
Some politicians and fishery interests have called for grey seals to be ... Atlantic Canada cod trap fisheries were ended in 1993. Entanglement of grey seals in the nets of monkfish fishermen in Cornwall, England, is a particular problem affecting the viability of the ...
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SCS: Harbour Seal (Phoca vitulina)
British Columbia fish farming industry ... Pacific harbour seal: Due to entanglement in fishing nets, particularly salmon trap nets, the threatened population in Hokkaido, which only ...
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Habitat Media - interview transcript
UV to help sterilize the nets. It seems like you're trying to minimize ... predator, the biggest problem is sea lions. We know when they come, they come with the herring, they arrive here in about February, so we put on big heavy predator nets in January and leave them on until April when the sea lions leave and go back to their home range. Then, we remove the predator nets ...
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Farmed and Dangerous - Marine Mammal Deaths
Citizen and community reports and footage shed light on the magnitude of marine mammal deaths caused by entanglements in salmon farm predator nets. Watch a short video ... Species at Risk Act) and a Pacific white sided dolphin were all drowned in the predator nets at Mainstream's Wehlis Bay farm in the Broughton Archipelago. The deaths of these mammals ...
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Farmed and Dangerous - 2007
British Columbians surveyed support a transition to closed containment technology for salmon farms. Salmon Farm Predator Nets Continue to Take Heavy Toll on Marine Mammals April 23, 2007 Open net cage ... dolphin, a harbour porpoise and a Steller sea lion were entangled and drowned in the predator nets at Mainstream Canada’s Wehlis Bay farm in the Broughton Archipelago. Groups Praise Committee ...
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The Dolphin Institute - Resource Guide
This relationship has been ongoing since 1847, with humans and dolphins passing the ... maternally related. Further, through these field observations, information on the social, reproductive, foraging and predator avoidance behaviors of these dolphins has been acquired. In Sarasota Bay, Florida, researchers led ...
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The Pelagic Shark Research Foundation - The Sharks of the Monterey Bay - Pelagic Sharks
Blue sharks are built like a long range glider with long slender fuselage and long ... Blue sharks are being heavily impacted by world-wide commercial fishing. Long-lines and gill-nets have taken a gigantic toll on blue sharks over the last 20 years and really ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – 2006 Photo Gallery
Critically Endangered in 2006. This large angel shark formerly was a common and important demersal predator in coastal and outer continental shelf sediment habitat in the Northeast Atlantic, Mediterranean and ... intense demersal fisheries, and the species is highly vulnerable to bycatch in benthic trawls, set nets and bottom longlines that now operate through most of its range. Its abundance has ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Gill nets and drift nets, for example, pose a threat to fish stocks only to the extent that the number of these nets in use may take quantities of fish greater than what is ...
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WWF - Fishing problems: Bigger nets, faster boats
About WWF > What We Do > Marine > Problems > Poorly managed fishing > Bigger nets, faster boats Poorly managed fishing Bigger nets, faster boats Perverse subsidies Fisheries Partnership Agreements Illegal fishing Bycatch Destructive ... years after large fishing vessels move into an area. And the biomass of the large predator fish in the oceans is estimated to be only around 10% of pre-industrial ...
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