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Discarded Commercial Fishing Gear Killing Puget Sound Marine Life ...
From the story on USAToday.com :
'Ghost fishing,' in which discarded gear threatens life and industry, also hooks rescue teams Beneath the frigid waters of Washington state 's Puget Sound , thousands of abandoned nets once used by fishermen to trap salmon by their gills keep working. They now indiscriminately catch marine life. With no one to pull up the plastic nets, captured animals can't escape and become bait for other creatures to enter the nets. That cycle has entangled and killed nearly 54,000 animals in 2,775 fishing nets removed from Puget Sound by the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative since 2002, says Ginny Broadhurst, executive director of the commission coordinating the effort. Derelict fishing gear ˜ dubbed "ghost gear" by fishers and conservationists ˜ comes in forms such as nets, crab pots and fishing traps. The gear's potential to ensnare animals, damage boats and alter the natural landscape plagues coastal waters around the USA. The problem was dramatized last week when a young gray whale entangled in rope and netting died after swimming listlessly close to shore south of Los Angeles. The scuba diving community has been asked to report any sighting or contact with drifting nets in (or near) the North Puget Sound and San Juan Islands, and the active, well-informed divers are aware of the problem of derelict nets. Hundreds (no exaggeration) of nets have been located and carefully removed, but some of these nets are massive, so it's not simply a matter of pulling them aboard pleasurecraft; some of these nets, found by sidescan sonar, require larger vessels to deal with them. A $4.5 million federal grant, provided under the National Recovery Act, will help defray the cost. Modern nets do not easily deteriorate over time. Some of the gill nets are 800-900 feet long and date back to the peak of gill net activity in the '70s and '80s, but they continue to catch fish for many years after they're cut away. They have to be brought up in segments. Some of these nets have to be disengaged from the rocky bottom by commercial divers using hand-held cutting instruments, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
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Every picture tells a story: Exhibit captures last of trap fishermen He told the gathering of museum supporters and visitors showing up for the opening that he got the idea for the trap fishing project after spotting a string of fishing boats near the docks that did not have the typical commercial fishing gear used by |
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Lost fishing gear becoming big threat to Puget Sound marine life The death of a rescued seal pup, trapped in an underwater tangle of fishing line, shows the deadly toll of lost fishing gear. Old fishing nets, crab pots, lines and hooks ensnare and kill more than half a million sea creatures in Puget Sound every year |
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Warming up? Mild winter has Lowcountry wildlife and fish behaving as rarely seen The shrimping season opens for commercial boats today — and fresh local shrimp in April are practically unheard of. Dolphin fish turned up offshore in March in numbers not usually seen until May. wade spees/staff Tommy Edwards will be heading out of |
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No more fish to catch in our seas in 35 years? “Since last year, many boat operators in Kedah had been found using such nets to haul tonnes of small fishes to be used as fish fertiliser.” By-catch – where the use of non-selective gears such as trawl nets catch non-target species (non-commercial |
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Fishing venture became boatload of pain Or maybe Nunez was just after the profits those nets were pulling in. His decision to buy a commercial vessel in 2008, just months before one of the most successful squid seasons in recent Monterey history, might have been a brilliant investment. |
