The painful side of trap and fixed net fisheries: chronic entanglement of large whales.
Concern over the well-being of marine mammals at sea has focused on intentional harvests, both in terms of individual welfare and population sustainability. Unintentional mortalities from fishing gear entanglement are primarily seen as a risk to population viability. Additionally, larger whales brea...
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ftciteseerx:oai:CiteSeerX.psu:10.1.1.1076.9297 2023-05-15T16:08:17+02:00 The painful side of trap and fixed net fisheries: chronic entanglement of large whales. Michael J Moore Julie M Van Der Hoop The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives 2012 application/pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1076.9297 http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2012/230653.pdf en eng http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1076.9297 http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2012/230653.pdf Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2012/230653.pdf text 2012 ftciteseerx 2020-05-03T00:15:23Z Concern over the well-being of marine mammals at sea has focused on intentional harvests, both in terms of individual welfare and population sustainability. Unintentional mortalities from fishing gear entanglement are primarily seen as a risk to population viability. Additionally, larger whales breaking free of, and subsequently carrying, fixed trap and net gear are subject to a very slow demise, averaging 6 months in the case of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Chronic cases can involve impaired foraging, increased drag, infection, hemorrhage, and severe tissue damage. The individual suffering of these cases appears to be extreme. Thus management measures should go beyond legally mandated conservation measures to include avoidance of such scenarios. Seafood consumers could succeed, where laws have failed, to demand fishing practices that do not kill whales in this manner. The effective absence of such demands would seem to reflect the cryptic nature of these cases to most consumers. Text Eubalaena glacialis North Atlantic North Atlantic right whale Unknown |
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Concern over the well-being of marine mammals at sea has focused on intentional harvests, both in terms of individual welfare and population sustainability. Unintentional mortalities from fishing gear entanglement are primarily seen as a risk to population viability. Additionally, larger whales breaking free of, and subsequently carrying, fixed trap and net gear are subject to a very slow demise, averaging 6 months in the case of the North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis). Chronic cases can involve impaired foraging, increased drag, infection, hemorrhage, and severe tissue damage. The individual suffering of these cases appears to be extreme. Thus management measures should go beyond legally mandated conservation measures to include avoidance of such scenarios. Seafood consumers could succeed, where laws have failed, to demand fishing practices that do not kill whales in this manner. The effective absence of such demands would seem to reflect the cryptic nature of these cases to most consumers. |
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