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An endangered North Atlantic right whale was spotted entangled in fishing gear off the North Carolina coast on Dec. 16. Becoming entangled in fishing gear is one of the two leading causes of death ...
A 2012 analysis of the scarification of right whales over the years 1980 to 2009 showed that 82.9% of all North Atlantic right whales experienced at least one fishing gear entanglement, 59.0% have had more than one such experience, and an average of 15.5% of the population are entangled in fishing gear annually. [50]
A Dall's porpoise caught in a fishing net. Generally, cetacean bycatch is increasing. Most of the world's cetacean bycatch occurs in gillnet fisheries. [3] The mean annual bycatch in the U.S. alone from 1990 to 1999 was 6,215 marine mammals, with dolphins and porpoises being the primary cetaceans caught in gillnets. [3]
The whales number less than 360, and they face existential threats from entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with large ships. Feds announce funding push for ropeless fishing gear that ...
The lower court had ruled against a federal law banning lobster fishing in a 200-nautical-mile area off the New England coast from Feb. 1 to April 30 annually. Lethal entanglement in lobster fishing gear is one of the biggest threats to the North Atlantic right whale, which numbers less than 380 and is in decline. The other major threat is ...
The larger the openings, the more easily small fish can escape. The development and testing of modifications to fishing gear to improve selectivity and decrease impact is called "conservation engineering". Seabirds chase longline fishing vessel. Longline fishing is controversial in some areas because of bycatch. Mitigation methods have been ...
As rescuers worked for hours to free a mother whale entangled in fishing gear off the Massachusetts coast, her 8-month-old calf kept a watchful eye, according to a nonprofit. ... A Marine Animal ...
As more attention has been paid to the issue of whale entanglement with fishing gear, more records of entanglements are discovered. Here is a list of entanglements of North Pacific right whales in fishing gear: February 2015 – a young right whale became entangled in the ropes of a musselaquaculture operation in Korea.