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Ever since humans created and used tools for everyday life, destruction and greed was born on this Earth. Those animals who become entangled in nets and traps cannot bite their way through human's unnatural strong materials. When those materials get thrown into the environment and into the ocean, it will forever stay in the water without decay. With these large unnatural webs floating in the water, animals die without meaning. With the shadow of greed in the hearts of human's, it continues to overwhelm the Earth as animals once knew it. Now is the time to stop this meaningless killing.
〜Keiko Olds〜
"Dirty Fishing" Emptying Oceans, Experts Say
In June, along the shoreline of Mauritania, in northwest Africa, scientists made a gruesome discovery: the carcasses of 230 dolphins, a pilot whale, and 15 endangered hawksbill and leatherback sea turtles.
"Because of the mixture of species found, and the fact that some of them were entangled in sections of fishing nets, it is likely that these animals were killed as bycatch," said Jean-Christophe Vie, deputy coordinator of the World Conservation Union's species program, based in Gland, Switzerland.
Across the world's oceans, large commercial fishing boats haul aboard huge nets and 60-mile (97-kilometer) lines teeming with unwanted creatures—bycatch, sometimes referred to as "bykill" or "dirty fishing."
Bycatch is a mix of young or low-value fishes, seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles, often considered worthless and tossed overboard—dead or dying.
The collateral damage amounts to about 30 million tons (about 27 million tonnes) of sea life each year, says marine ecologist Jane Lubchenco of Oregon State University—about one-third the total global catch. Among the worst offenders are shrimp trawlers, who often discard up to 10 pounds of sea life for each pound of shrimp they catch.
"If a hunter is hunting for elk, he's not killing sparrows, eagles, coyotes, and pronghorn," said Elliott Norse, president of Marine Conservation Biology Institute (MCBI) in Redmond, Washington. "That's different in the sea. We fish blindly—and it's an exceedingly wasteful way of doing things."
Bottlenose Dolphin Rescued From Fishnets
Nets Kill Nearly 1,000 Marine Mammals a Day
By National Geographic
Fishing nets intended for other marine species are killing at-risk species of dolphins and porpoises around the world, according to a report commissioned by the nonprofit World Wildlife Fund-U.S.
Leading marine scientists ranked dolphins and porpoises across the globe for the risk they face from lethal fishing nets. Ten species are included in a list of populations conservationists say require urgent action to prevent further deaths. The report lists the following priority locations and species:
Researchers say most of these species are killed by gillnets. Made of monofilament (single-strand) nylon mesh, gillnets are difficult for dolphins and porpoises to see or detect with their sonar.
Once entangled in netting or its supporting ropes, marine mammals face high risk of drowning. Driftnets and crab nets can also kill the mammals. Nontarget species accidentally caught in fishing equipment are known as bycatch.
"Almost one thousand whales, dolphins, and porpoises die every day in nets and fishing gear," said Karen Baragona, of the WWF species-conservation program.
Last year the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy identified bycatch as the greatest global threat to cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises). Marine experts estimate that more than 300,000 cetaceans are killed by fishing gear every year.
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EMPTY OCEANS: Is The World Running Out Of Fish?
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PACIFIC FISHERY MANAGEMENT COUNCIL
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Stop the madness... end super trawlers!
Giant super trawler banned from Australian waters
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Australia condemns killing of dolphins and seals by factory fishing trawler
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Petition to ban super trawlers sent to parliament as 95-metre boat nears
GHOST FISHING
The pollution of the environments under water is very clear. Lost fishing nets, lines, hooks and weights are found by divers in large numbers on shipwrecks and reefs but also on the sandy seabed around.
Ghost fishing is a term that describes what happens when derelict fishing gear ‘continues to fish’ The issue of “ghost fishing” was first brought to the attention of world at the 16th Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries in April 1985. Following debate at COFI, the FAO Secretariat published an in-depth study of the problem. Derelict fishing gear, sometimes referred to as “ghost gear” or “ghost nets” is any discarded, lost, or abandoned, fishing gear in the environment. This gear continues to fish and trap animals, entangle and potentially kill marine life, smother habitat, and act as a hazard to navigation. Derelict fishing gear, such as nets or traps and pots, is one of the main types of debris impacting the marine environment today. Debris in our oceans, seas and inland waters is very big, so big it will probably never disappear.
http://www.ghostfishing.org/the-problem/
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