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Bycatch News
Extinction threat for rarest dolphin
(Added: 02 February 2012)
Another one of the world's last 100 Maui's dolphins has died in a fishing net in New Zealand - a stark reminder that measures to protect the world's most endangered marine dolphin against fisheries bycatch are inadequate to prevent their extinction.
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Whale bycatch in the Korean peninsula
(Added: 22 January 2012)
New published research from Professor Douglas MacMillan of the University of Kent's School of Anthropology and Conservation has shed light on one of the most contentious issues in global conservation - the sale of skin, blubber and meat from whales caught accidentally.
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Negative impacts of using Fish Aggregating Devices
(Added: 28 November 2011)
New video footage captured by a tuna industry whistleblower, shows the negative impacts of using Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs).
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Dramatic population declines from bycatch
(Added: 24 October 2011)
According to a report recently published by the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals under the UN Environment Programme, 86 per cent of all toothed whale species, entanglement in gillnets, traps, weirs, purse seines, longlines and trawls is resulting in an unsustainably high death toll.
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Dolphins on course for extinction
(Added: 02 October 2011)
The world's most endangered dolphins are heading towards extinction, with at least 23 killed in New Zealand fishing nets each year.
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New report on US bycatch
(Added: 22 September 2011)
NOAA has released its first national bycatch report from data collected in 2005 which will help the agency scientists better monitor progress in reducing bycatch - the non-target fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds caught incidentally in fishing.
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Hearings set for fishing rules
(Added:23 June 2011)
Fishery regulators have scheduled 15 public meetings along the Eastern Seaboard to allow public input in the development of new regulations aimed to prevent whales from becoming entangled in fishing gear.
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Electronic bycatch monitoring
(Added: 10 May 2011)
The Alaska Longline Fishermen's Association has been awarded $220,000 from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation to carry out research to determine if it's practical to monitor bycatch electronically on some longliners, rather than using human observers.
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Whale saving pingers
(Added: 03 May 2011)
Queensland environmental company, Fumunda is finding success worldwide with its latest innovation in marine mammal saving technology which is set to be adopted by KwaZulu-Natal Sharks Board in South Africa.
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Bycatch still a major problem
(Added: 08 April 2011)
A study by French researchers has shown that only 8 percent of the animals killed as bycatch were actually detected. Harald Benke, the head of the German Marine Museum said the results are alarming.
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Dolphin detectors installed along Cornish coastline
(Added: 23 January 2011)
Marine Connection welcomes the news that seven audio recording underwater dolphin detectors have been installed along the UK Cornish coastline in the hope that by learning more about where dolphins, whales and porpoises congregate, it can reduce the number killed by fishing nets.
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Chemical sedation used to free whale
(Added: 19 January 2011)
Scientists from NOAA Fisheries Service and its state and nonprofit partners successfully used at sea chemical sedation to help cut the remaining ropes from a young North Atlantic right whale recently off the coast of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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