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Photo of a man holding totoaba a vaquita caught in a net underneath.
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Vaquitas as Bycatch

Gillnets used to catch totoaba accidentally catch vaquitas too. The vaquita’s...
Screenshot of video with sharks swimming underwater.
video

Protecting Sharks: How Nets Hurt

Tom Peschak, a photojournalist with the Save Our Seas Foundation, describes the...
Mon, 01/04/2010 - 16:20
Screenshot of "Rethink the Shark" showing people on a beach.
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Rethink the Shark

Sharks have a long and impressive lineage.  Ancient sharks were cruising the...
Fri, 12/18/2009 - 14:17
Great White Sharks breach to hunt -- with split-second timing they grab their prey in one swift snatch. Follow the whole breaching action in this slideshow.
overview

Great White Shark

Sharks are much older than dinosaurs. Their ancestry dates back more than 400...
April 2018
Sunset over a fishing net.
slideshow

Success Stories in Ocean Conservation

It is easy to feel hopeless when reading the news coverage of ocean conservation....
Thu, 06/12/2014 - 11:09
A pile of bycatch species.
slideshow

Bycatch: The Cost of Catching What You Don’t Want

When people go out fishing, they  often have something specific in mind, but...
Wed, 09/24/2014 - 11:38
Phoenix the right whale diving in North Atlantic.
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A Tale of a Right Whale

Suspended at the center of the Sant Ocean Hall is a life-size model of a North...
Wed, 09/30/2009 - 15:58
fish swim in a net
video

Reducing Bycatch

Bycatch, the name given to fish and other ocean animals that are caught...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:18
a whale's tale caught in fishing gear
video

Whale Rescue

When a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale becomes entangled in...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:50
an animated dolphin in an arm chair
video

Don't Feed Wild Dolphins

A Twelve-Step group for wild animals with people-food addictions? Don’t be...
Wed, 11/24/2010 - 16:53
Sunset over a fishing net.
Photo

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.
Photo

Fishing with Dynamite

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

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