Sentence examples for bycatch mortality from inspiring English sources
Our visit to the beach and nearby Magdalena Bay made it particularly distressing to read a news release this morning from Conservation International about a new research paper confirming that the area we're focusing on in our film is a hot spot for "bycatch" mortality of sea turtles.
The escape device was the most effective for avoiding turtle bycatch mortality while retaining fish.
Turtles are vulnerable to population declines in response to even low levels of additional adult mortality, for instance bycatch mortality.
Implementing the escape device or a combination of both exclusion and escape devices would reduce turtle bycatch mortality within fyke net fisheries.
Recent case studies have highlighted high bycatch mortality of sea turtles and marine mammals in artisanal fisheries, but in most countries there are few data on artisanal fishing effort, catch, or bycatch.
No data is available on the population status of the crocodile shark, though it is probably declining from bycatch mortality.
Similarly, Hunter and Caswell [27] showed that bycatch adult mortality has a much greater impact on the population growth rate of Sooty shearwater than did harvest of chicks by Maoris.
Owing to the concern over high rates of sea turtle bycatch and mortality in several such fisheries [ 3], a variety of bycatch reduction technologies (BRTs), such as modifications to float lines [ 4], altering net tie-downs [ 4], use of at-sea advisory programmes [ 3] and net illumination [ 5] have been examined.
Bycatch rates and mortality were, on average, highest in the East Pacific, Northwest and Southwest Atlantic, and the Mediterranean, making these the hardest places in the world to be a sea turtle from a bycatch perspective.
The great hammerhead is also taken unintentionally as bycatch and suffers very high mortality, over 90% for fisheries in the northwest Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico.
Many seabirds, including 21 out of 24 extant albatross species, have an unfavourable conservation status, with the main identified threat being mortality through fisheries bycatch [8].
