Finding Drift Nets

Matt Rogers · May 3, 2005

Saw this on the 3reef Ocean News box... sounds like they are figuring out how to find old fishing nets that have been cut loose. Too cool. They can be quite huge and an extreme danger to fish.

http://www.aberdeennews.com/mld/aberdeennews/news/politics/11524366.htm

inwall75 · Aug 18, 2005

Not only were drift nets recently responsible for almost killing those Russian submariners, the people using the drift nets are getting downright nasty.

Oceana's research catamaran, Ranger, filming and photographing illegal driftnet fishing off southern Italy, was chased in the high seas and narrowly escaped a ramming attempt by angry Sicilian commercial fishermen whose colleagues have been arrested and their boats and nets confiscated in the past two weeks as the international ocean conservation group works to stop the forbidden practice that kills dolphins by the hundreds in the Mediterranean.

Four days later, the swordfish fishermen tracked down Ranger's crew at a small marina. The fishermen issued death threats, demanding the crew turn over the film and photos.

We are astounded to see the lengths to which these illegal commercial fishermen will go to stop the world from witnessing their foul practice," said Andrew Sharpless, Oceana's chief executive officer. "The European Union has paid boat owners up to $50,000 a boat to convert to legal fishing gear, but many simply pocket the money and keep fishing with driftnets. The result is the deaths of dolphins, sea turtles and other marine wildlife in these curtains of death."
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http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_23687.shtml

Birdlady · Aug 18, 2005

It would be ashame to have to shoot those creeps in self defense

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