- Canada, and
Alaska still commonly use
gillnets in
their fisheries for
salmon and steelhead. Both
drift gillnets and
setnets have long been used by cultures...
- PACE-VAQUITA in an
effort to
enforce the
gillnet ban in the
Biosphere Reserve,
allow fishermen to swap
their gillnets for vaquita-safe
fishing gear, and provide...
-
seines and
Danish seines. A
seine differs from a
gillnet, in that a
seine encloses fish,
where a
gillnet directly snares fish. The word
seine has its origins...
- Canada, and
Alaska still commonly use
gillnets in
their fisheries for
salmon and steelhead. Both
drift gillnets and
setnets also have been
widely adapted...
- the 1980s due to
their becoming caught in
oceanic drift gillnets introduced at that time.
Gillnets were
banned by the
United Nations in 1993. Conservation...
-
gillnets with
large mesh sizes. The
majority of
reported dolphin deaths in all subpo****tions is due to
accidental capture and
drowning in
gillnets and...
- dolphin's
range on the west
coast has been
closed to
gillnet fisheries.
Drift and bottom-set
gillnets are the
biggest conservation threat to
these dolphins...
-
frequently caught in
drift gillnet fisheries,
making up
nearly 30% of the
total catch of the
swordfish fishery employing drift gillnets in California. The bycatch...
-
sockeye salmon due to
gillnet-related
injuries found that 11 – 29% of
sockeye sustained fishery-related
injuries attributable to
gillnets, 51% of
those fish...
-
includes gillnets, lift nets, scoop-nets used in
light fishing; hook and line gear (hand-lines,
fishing rods or tackles) and fish traps.
Gillnets are currently...
