Articles related to "Net Entanglement"

Moby Dick's whale is still being hunted by Japan and Indonesia. Oceanic pollution, underwater sound, boat traffic and drift nets also problems for the sperm whale.

Endangered species at risk from net entanglement as bycatch helped using money from mitigation fees. Fishermen get incentives to reduce chances of fishing gear deaths.

Commercial hunting, fishing gear entanglement, habitat loss, pollution and disease are all implicated as IUCN changes the Caspian seal's red list status to endangered.

One of two subspecies of South Asian River dolphin, efforts to save this primitive cetacean have been limited. Extinction is likely unless the Ganges itself is restored.

Designation of fourth largest MPA protects a South African biodiversity hotspot, which is home to seals, whales and seabirds, from illegal fisheries and other threats

Cooperation between fishermen and river dolphins leads to habitat protection in Myanmar. Ecotourism in Burma based on dolphins and humans fishing together benefits both.

The Marine Mammal Protection Act is America's greatest contribution to cetacean and pinniped conservation. Is it enough to protect whales, dolphins, porpoises, and seals?

South Africa and Australia still use shark nets to protect swimmers. Changing tourism interests and conservation concerns may save ocean animals from being caught in them