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Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico in 2006.

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Bycatch Raining Down From Above

Guitarfish, rays, and other bycatch are tossed from a shrimp boat in La Paz, Mexico...

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.

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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast...

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

This sea lion has been caught in killed in a giant drift net, or a “curtain of...

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

Every year in Sardinia, Italy. tuna is fished using a large fixed net anchored on...

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

The impacts of derelict fishing gear on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands coral reef...

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

This roughly 300 foot long gill net was found abandoned on a shallow reef in the...

The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery scoops up a lot of unwanted fish along with the shrimp. In the 1990s, for every pound of shrimp caught, more than 4 pounds of other fish species were caught as bycatch and discarded dead.

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Shrimp Trawls Catch More Than Shrimp

The Gulf of Mexico shrimp trawl fishery scoops up a lot of unwanted fish along with...

A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded net. Discarded nets continue to fish long after they have been lost, devastating the local fish populations and choking the life out of the reef on which it becomes entangled

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Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded...

The weedy sea dragon male can hold around 250 eggs in his pouch.

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The Dragon of the Sea

Just like other seahorse species, male weedy sea dragons are the ones to get...

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Technology and Sea Turtles

Sea turtles may have survived the planetary changes that killed the dinosaurs, but...

Using dynamite to stun or kill bigger fish to sell at market leaves behind many dead undesired fish as bycatch.

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Fishing with Dynamite

Blast fishing, when dynamite or other explosives are used to stun or kill fish, is...

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A Net Full of Bycatch

Bycatch, or accidentally caught species, can make up a very high percentage of the...

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Shrimp Trawls Catch More Than Shrimp

Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

The Dragon of the Sea

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Fishing with Dynamite

A Net Full of Bycatch

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