SOS: Save Our Seabirds From Commercial Fishing Boats
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Many conservationists have been talking about how commercial fishing practices have all but destroyed many of the most significant fish populations on the planet, like the snapper and giant bluefin tuna, however not as much attention has been drawn to the way outdated fishing techniques are negatively impacting other marine species, like sea birds.
According to a recently formed coalition of conservation organizations that includes Britain's own Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, seabirds like the Albatross and and petrel are frequently becoming the innocent victims of a fishing practice known as long lining, or trawling.
Although they are slightly different in execution, both long lining and trawling involve dragging lines and/or nets behind fishing boats for long distances. Because these lines carry fish bait and bits of discarded fish flesh on the boat decks, they act as magnets for seabirds who treat them like their at-sea buffet.
Fishing boats that are deploying long lines of baited hooks can often spell the end for these seabirds, which swoop down to obtain the tasty morsel, only to become ensnared on the hook and plunged under the water where they soon drown.
Thankfully, there are easy, inexpensive solutions to this problem. The hard part arises in getting fishing boats to adopt them.
Visit http://su.pr/6yePAV to learn what you can do to help!
According to a recently formed coalition of conservation organizations that includes Britain's own Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, seabirds like the Albatross and and petrel are frequently becoming the innocent victims of a fishing practice known as long lining, or trawling.
Although they are slightly different in execution, both long lining and trawling involve dragging lines and/or nets behind fishing boats for long distances. Because these lines carry fish bait and bits of discarded fish flesh on the boat decks, they act as magnets for seabirds who treat them like their at-sea buffet.
Fishing boats that are deploying long lines of baited hooks can often spell the end for these seabirds, which swoop down to obtain the tasty morsel, only to become ensnared on the hook and plunged under the water where they soon drown.
Thankfully, there are easy, inexpensive solutions to this problem. The hard part arises in getting fishing boats to adopt them.
Visit http://su.pr/6yePAV to learn what you can do to help!
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- groups:
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- tags:
- Conservation, Ocean, Fishing, seabirds
