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What is Bycatch? Understanding and Preventing Fishing Bycatch
Bycatch occurs because the nets also trap everything larger than the net’s mesh, which includes juvenile fish, sharks, seabirds, marine turtles and cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises). …
Protecting Turtles from the Threat of Bycatch | Initiatives | WWF
WWF’s Smart Gear competition, which promotes innovative solutions for reducing fisheries bycatch, yielded a way to deter turtles from gillnets using lights. The idea is that widely …
What is Overfishing? Facts, Effects and Overfishing Solutions
Overfishing is closely tied to bycatch—the capture of unwanted sea life while fishing for a different species. This, too, is a serious marine threat that causes the needless loss of billions of fish, …
Hawksbill Turtle | Sea Turtles | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
WWF aims to reduce turtle bycatch by working with fisheries to switch to more turtle-friendly fishing hooks ("circle" hooks) and advocates for the use of special turtle excluder devices in …
Leatherback Turtle | Sea Turtles | Species | WWF - World Wildlife …
Known as bycatch, this is a serious threat to leatherback turtles. As fishing activity expands, this threat is more of a problem. Habitat Loss. Sea turtles are dependent on beaches for nesting. …
New US regulations offer better protection from bycatch
Entanglements like these are part of bycatch, the single largest immediate threat to cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises). Claiming more than 600,000 marine mammals each year, …
Bluefin Tuna | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
The Atlantic bluefin is a highly sought-after delicacy for sushi and sashimi in Asia—a single fish has sold for over $1.75 million! Driven by such high prices, fishermen use even more refined …
Tuna | Species | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
ISSF advances the use of science-based initiatives for the long-term conservation and sustainable use of tuna stock, reduction of bycatch and promotion of biodiversity and ecosystem health. …
Innovation in river dolphin conservation | Stories | WWF
Dec 7, 2021 · During the six-month study monitoring the effectiveness of these pingers, there was a 100% reduction in dolphin by-catch, saving the lives of dolphins and avoiding costly damage …
Bycatch Leatherback Turtle | Photos | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
Bycatch; Leatherback Turtle; Unsucceful attempt by a diver to rescue a Leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) caught in a net. After days of struggle, it finally drowned after …