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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.
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 ]
A baby humpback whale and a young hammerhead shark were caught in nets off the Gold Coast of Australia in early October, as seen in videos recorded by the Humane Society International (HSI).The ...
The toothy animals were hauled ... trawlers hauled in their fishing nets — and caught a new species. ... While bottom trawling in the South China Sea between 2022 and 2023, fishermen caught 23 ...
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]
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 ...
Animal rights activists note the suffering and cruelty inflicted upon animals caught in nets and drum lines: this suffering includes lacerations, stress, pain, disease, and death. [20] There are also reports of shark attack survivors being harassed and abused on social media, presumably by extreme environmentalists. [78]
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 ...