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Between 1950 and 2008, 352 tiger sharks and 577 great white sharks died in the nets in New South Wales — also during this period, a total of 15,135 marine animals perished in the nets. [15] More than 5,000 marine turtles have been caught on the nets. [13]
On April 25, 1977, the Japanese trawler Zuiyō Maru, fishing east of Christchurch, New Zealand, caught a strange, unknown creature in the trawl.The crew was convinced it was an unidentified animal, [4] but despite the potential biological significance of the curious discovery, the captain, Akira Tanaka, decided to dump the carcass into the ocean again so not to risk spoiling the fish caught.
The dredge digs into the ocean floor and bring the animals to the surface where they are caught in a net that either follows behind or is a part of the digging apparatus. Early dredging samplers did not have a closing device, and many organisms were washed out.
In the spiny, thicket habitats of southern Madagascar, small flies were caught in nets and discovered as new species. NO. 1: ‘GRACEFUL’ CREATURES — NAMED AFTER STILETTOS — DISCOVERED AS ...
A Norwegian fisherman caught a US submarine in his nets this week. The USS Virginia's propellers got tangled in the nets, reports say, dragging them out to sea.
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]
Anucha Boontaeng, 42, noticed the turtle struggling as it floated in loose nets in the Andaman sea near Phuket, southern Thailand. It was surrounded by plastic bottles and other trash also caught ...
One example of bycatch is dolphins caught in tuna nets. As dolphins are mammals and do not have gills , they may drown while stuck in nets underwater. This bycatch issue has been one of the reasons of the growing ecolabelling industry, where fish producers mark their packagings with disclaimers such as "dolphin friendly" to reassure buyers.