How we all kill whales
Today there is enormous popular interest in marine mammals. Western media tend to dwell on the ongoing debate about commercial whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland. There is, however, relative silence as to how the shipping and fishing industries of many if not all maritime countries are also catchi...
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fthighwire:oai:open-archive.highwire.org:icesjms:71/4/760 2023-05-15T16:48:54+02:00 How we all kill whales Moore, Michael J. 2014-06-01 00:00:00.0 text/html http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/71/4/760 https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu008 en eng Oxford University Press http://icesjms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/71/4/760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu008 Copyright (C) 2014, International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/Conseil International pour l'Exploration de la Mer Food for Thought TEXT 2014 fthighwire https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsu008 2015-02-28T22:23:13Z Today there is enormous popular interest in marine mammals. Western media tend to dwell on the ongoing debate about commercial whaling by Japan, Norway and Iceland. There is, however, relative silence as to how the shipping and fishing industries of many if not all maritime countries are also catching and sometimes killing whales, albeit unintentionally. Thus, western countries have, through the development and increase in fishing and shipping in continental shelf waters, essentially resumed whaling as vessel speeds and fishing gear strength have increased in recent decades. The ways in which these animals die, especially in fixed fishing gear that they become entangled in and swim off with, would raise substantial concern with consumers of seafood were they to be aware of what they were enabling. Text Iceland HighWire Press (Stanford University) Norway ICES Journal of Marine Science 71 4 760 763 |
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