Only 7–10 #vaquitas remain. A calf & pregnant mother were just spotted, & now #Mexico plans to shrink protected habitat by 85%, reopening waters to deadly #GillNets. This could mean extinction. Act now. #SaveTheVaquita #EndGillnets #MarineConservation bit.ly/4dUbhi4
Only 7–10 #vaquitas remain. A calf & pregnant mother were just spotted, & now #Mexico plans to shrink protected habitat by 85%, reopening waters to deadly #GillNets. This could mean extinction. Act now. #SaveTheVaquita #EndGillnets #MarineConservation bit.ly/4dUbhi4
Only 7–10 #vaquitas remain. A calf & pregnant mother were just spotted, & now #Mexico plans to shrink protected habitat by 85%, reopening waters to deadly #GillNets. This could mean extinction. Act now. #SaveTheVaquita #EndGillnets #MarineConservation bit.ly/4dUbhi4
chart showing effect of artificial light on shark and ray gillnet CPUE
🧪 #shark #ray #bycatch #CPUE significantly ⬇️in #gillnets illuminated with four types of light - orange LEDs most effective Burgher et al (2026) www.bmis-bycatch.org/references/7...
#ThrowbackThursday 🌊🇧🇿 Five years ago, #Belize made history by banning #gillnets! The Fisheries Resources (Gill Net Prohibition) Regulations 2020 have since protected marine habitats, promoted #sustainablefishing, and strengthened marine conservation in Belize.
If you can find the time, pls read this heartbreaking, uplifting and confronting story, beautifully told. It's so worth embracing the message by any naturalist, community scientist and cetologist. About the endling of a species...and so much more.
#vaquita #endling #cetaceans #seasheperd #gillnets
We consulted co-Chairs of the @sscmarine.bsky.social taxon expert groups and they told about non-selective fisheries exerting huge pressures on their very diverse taxa, particularly from #BottomTrawls and #Gillnets. @projectseahorse.bsky.social
NEW PAPER in #ornithology highlights that the bycatch of #seabirds in #gillnets is not reduced by LED lights that deter #turtles - these lights may inadvertently attract plunge-diving birds: https://buff.ly/45eouKw
NEW PAPER in #ornithology quantifies the #bycatch of #seabirds in #gillnets in #Greenland and indicates that more eiders are killed in fishing nets than by hunting: https://buff.ly/3FK8eWN
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that the #bycatch of #seabirds in #gillnets in #Lithuania is orders of magnitude larger than what was officially reported to the @EU_Commission: https://buff.ly/3tZe95o
NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows the bycatch of #seabirds in #gillnets in Denmark over 9 years - 13.3% of fishing trips catch #seabirds, but none is recorded in official logbooks: https://buff.ly/2V2aLpl
NEW PAPER by @RSPBScience in #ornithology shows that bycatch of #seaducks in #gillnets is very difficult to prevent - lights and net panels did not reduce bycatch: https://buff.ly/2Vd6aBG
