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About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

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A pile of bycatch species.
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A Net Full of Bycatch

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An offshore cage is stocked with 70,000 Pacific threadfin (Polydactylus sexfilis).
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Commercial Aquaculture

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Giant drift nets, placed around the world’s oceans to catch commercial fish species, kill non-commercial animals just as efficiently, often taking far more of the latter for every useable species ensnared.
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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

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Every year in Sardinia, Italy. tuna is fished using a large fixed net anchored on the bottom for the purpose to keep the fish inside to grow calm. But other animals like sunfish (shown here), turtles, dolphins, and others are also captured in the net, and
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Sunfish Entangled in Tuna Net

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Monterey Bay Aquarium's Seafood Watch will recommend which fish are "Best Choices" for sustainability, which are "Good Alternatives," and which ones you should "Avoid."
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Choosing Sustainable Seafood

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A thresher shark was killed after becoming stuck in a gillnet.
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Thresher Shark Killed by a Gillnet

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First Place (High School age group): What Goes On Your Plate by Ruofei Rao, Age 17, New Zealand
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2016 Living Oceans Foundation “Science Without Borders” Challenge

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The Charles W. Morgan tallship
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History and Modern Science Collide for the 38th Voyage of the Charles W. Morgan

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Three fishermen sit on wooden stilts that are sticking out of the ocean as they fish.
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Fishing for Food Security: Small-Scale Fisheries Are Key

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Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
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A Tale of a Right Whale

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Map showing the range of the eastern and western populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna and their spawning grounds in the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Atlantic Bluefin Tuna (Thunnus thynnus)

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