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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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Tuna in a warehouse waiting to be sold at market.
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Tuna at Tsukiji Fish Market

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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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A red snapper hunts for prey on Kingman’s Reef, a healthy reef in the Line Islands.
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Kingman’s Reef, Line Islands

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A North Atlantic right whale with a deep wound caused by entanglement in fishing gear floats at the surface in the Bay of Fundy.
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Wounded North Atlantic Right Whale

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A team works to free a one-year-old right whale from fishing ropes wrapped and knotted around its body and flippers.
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Whale Rescue

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A comparison of an undisturbed Oculina coral reef and one that has been devastated by trawling.
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Undisturbed vs. Trawled Reef

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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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Lost nets become entangled on a coral reef in the NW Hawaiian Islands, doing damage for decades. Wave action on the net breaks pieces of coral off until the net breaks, when it is free to catch on new reefs and do more damage.
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Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

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An albatross caught on a fishing line.
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Accidental Catch

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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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