Humpback whale freed after gruelling eight-hour rescue mission in #Australia https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/03/humpback-whale-freed-after-gruelling-eight-hour-rescue-mission-in-australia Deteriorating conditions and other whales in area south of Sydney hampered attempts, say rescuers 🐋 #Whales #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Bycatch #Entanglement
#entanglement #ByCatch #marinemammals #cetaceans #whales #Australia
Cambodian leader U-turns on rare #dolphin conservation law https://phys.org/news/2023-04-cambodian-leader-u-turns-rare-dolphin.html Hun Sen on Thursday cancelled a law he created just two months ago to protect critically endangered Mekong #dolphins as the mammals continue to die from illegal fishing activities. 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineScience #Bycatch
#ByCatch #marinescience #marinemammals #cetaceans #dolphins #dolphin
#Whale and #dolphin abuse ignored by Marine Stewardship Council https://worldcetaceanalliance.org/2023/04/19/whale-dolphin-abuse-ignored-by-msc/ #MSC-certified vessels deliberately trapped #whales and #dolphins 🐬 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineScience #Bycatch
#ByCatch #marinescience #marinemammals #cetaceans #dolphins #whales #msc #dolphin #whale
Experts doubt Mexico's pledge to protect endangered #porpoise https://phys.org/news/2023-04-experts-mexico-pledge-endangered-porpoise.html 🐬 🐋 #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #MarineScience #Porpoises #Bycatch #Extinction #Vaquita
{📷©Paula Olson/NOAA}
#vaquita #extinction #ByCatch #porpoises #marinescience #marinemammals #cetaceans #porpoise
Bycatch is a contentious issue in Alaska, with the big Bering Sea trawl fleet taking some heat for poor salmon runs on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers. But science suggests that bycatch is no more than a minor factor in the salmon failures. Whatever role it plays, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is taking some steps on the issue -- albeit, very slow steps for now. #Alaska #salmon #bycatch #YukonRiver #KuskokwimRiver #BeringSea https://alaskabeacon.com/2023/04/11/fishery-council-moves-toward-more-regulation-to-limit-chum-salmon-bycatch-but-avoids-firm-cap/
#alaska #salmon #ByCatch #yukonriver #kuskokwimriver #beringsea
UK fishing vessels ‘underreporting’ #whale, #dolphin and #porpoise #bycatch https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/21/uk-fishing-industry-underreporting-whale-dolphin-porpoise-bycatch Only 19 cases of #cetacean bycatch reported under Defra scheme, but experts say figure much higher 🐋 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Whales #Dolphins #Fisheries
{📷©NPL/Alamy}
#fisheries #dolphins #whales #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #cetacean #ByCatch #porpoise #dolphin #whale
Only a handful of instances of accidental bycatch of whales, dolphins and porpoises have been recorded under the UK government’s self-reporting initiative, despite the likelihood that hundreds are being caught by fishing vessels.
But last year fishers only made 19 reports, even though experts estimate that about 1,000 porpoises, hundreds of dolphins and tens of whales die in UK waters each year.
#Bycatch #Fishing #Dolphins #Porpoises #Whales #UKFishing
#ukfishing #whales #porpoises #dolphins #Fishing #ByCatch
New research by an Oregon State University-led team is beginning to unravel the times of year and locations where #whales are at greatest danger of entanglement in fishing gear on the Oregon Coast. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230320143728.htm 🐋 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Fisheries #Bycatch
#ByCatch #fisheries #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #whales
[Popov et al.] Assessment of the #bycatch level for the Black Sea harbour #porpoise in the light of new data on population abundance https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2023.1119983/full 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Porpoises #Fisheries
#fisheries #porpoises #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #porpoise #ByCatch
Another dolphin got killed in a "shark net" in Sydney.
Here is a video from yesterday's swim to demonstrate the uselessness of the net at Bondi. We swim over, under, around it and so could sharks. Only accidental #bycatch gets killed.
[Elliott et al.] #Cetacean #bycatch management in regional fisheries management organizations: Current progress, gaps, and looking ahead
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.1006894/full 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Whales #Dolphins
#dolphins #whales #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #ByCatch #cetacean
‘Extinction crisis’ of sharks and rays to have devastating effect on other species, study finds
“These sharks and rays have evolved over 450m years and survived six mass extinctions but they can’t deal with this fishing pressure.”
#bycatch #climatechange #overfishing #rays #sharks #reefrays #reefsharks
#ByCatch #climatechange #overfishing #rays #sharks #reefrays #reefsharks
Collaboration is key to reducing whale entanglements in Scotland https://hwdt.org/news/entanglement-news 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Dolphins #Dolphin #Whale #Whales #Porpoise #Porpoises #Fisheries #Bycatch
#ByCatch #fisheries #porpoises #porpoise #whales #whale #dolphin #dolphins #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience
Lobsters versus right #whales: The latest chapter in a long quest to make fishing more sustainable https://phys.org/news/2023-01-lobsters-whales-latest-chapter-quest.html 🐋 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Bycatch #Whale #Fisheries
#fisheries #whale #ByCatch #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #whales
#Whale entangled in fishing gear is fighting for its life off Outer Banks, NOAA says https://phys.org/news/2023-01-whale-entangled-fishing-gear-life.html 🐋 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Bycatch #Whales #Fisheries
#fisheries #whales #ByCatch #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #whale
Cambodian leader orders Mekong safe zones to save rare #dolphins https://phys.org/news/2023-01-cambodian-leader-mekong-safe-zones.html 🐬 #Bycatch #Dolphin #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals
#marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #dolphin #ByCatch #dolphins
#Bird Tooters, here is one for the #seabirds enthusiasts, from The Bird Emergency podcast archive!
You may know that #bycatch is a killer of countless thousands of #albatross #petrels and other seabirds in the fisheries of the world, but one clever device, the #Hookpod, is saving more and more of these #birds every day, making fisheries safer for #birds I spoke with Dr. Ben Sullivan, one of the originators of the Hookpod, about the idea and development of Hookpod.
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thebirdemergency/Ben_Sullivan_-_Saving_Seabirds_with_Hookpod.mp3
#bird #seabirds #ByCatch #albatross #petrels #hookpod #birds
Deaths of 3 endangered Cambodian #dolphins raise alarm https://phys.org/news/2022-12-deaths-endangered-cambodian-dolphins-alarm.html 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Dolphin #Bycatch
{📷©️Heng Sinith}
#ByCatch #dolphin #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #dolphins
Animal activists say Senate omnibus bill condemns right #whale to #extinction https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/21/senate-omnibus-bill-condemns-right-whale-to-extinction 🐋 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Whales #Bycatch
{📷©️Luis Robayo}
#ByCatch #whales #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #extinction #whale
[Zerbini et al.] Estimating abundance of an elusive #cetacean in a complex environment: Harbor #porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in inland waters of Southeast Alaska https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2022.966489/full 🐬 #MarineScience #Cetaceans #MarineMammals #Porpoise #Bycatch
#ByCatch #porpoise #marinemammals #cetaceans #marinescience #porpoises #cetacean