SAVING SAWFISH & SPEARTOOTH SHARKS 🦈

#NorthernTerritory (NT) waters make up the last global stronghold for endangered #sawfish and one of the world's rarest shark species, the #RiverShark. Four of the world's five sawfish species and two of the world's five river shark species call NT waters home.

Right now, sawfish and river sharks are not protected from commercial #gillnets in their #CriticalHabitat along the coastlines of major river systems in the NT.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abb6026

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The First Extinction Alert Issued In 70 Years For Rarest Marine Mammal On Earth | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/the-first-extinction-alert-issued-in-70-years-for-rarest-marine-mammal-on-earth-72050

#Extinction
#Marine
#Mammal
#Vaquitas
#Cetacean
#GulfOfCalifornia
#Gillnets
#Fishing
#Totoaba
#BlackMarket
#ChineseMedicine
#LeonardoDiCapriosFoundation
#NavyTrainedDolphins
#Dolphins
#MexicanNavy
#ZeroToleranceArea
#ZTA
#ConcreteBlocks

There are about 240 gillnet commercial licences on the east coast, with about half of those in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area.#Gillnets are placed at the mouths of creeks to catch seafood. Conservationists say the nets are killing endangered animals

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-09/fish-prices-to-rise-ban-on-gillnet-fishing-industry-says/102455716
#Fish #Bycatch #Dugongs #Turtles #Sharks

Endangered species found dead on north Queensland beach prompts calls for gillnets ban in reef waters

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-23/endangered-species-found-dead-calls-to-ban-gillnets/102243094?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

#gillnets #gillnet #greatbarrierreef #Australia #greenturtle #dugong #dugongs

#Gillnets are killing endangered species in numbers "far greater" than what is reported, calling for a ban on the #fishing practice in Great Barrier #Reef waters. "It's a #Dugong Protection Area here but you can still net … I don't know where the logic is. Gillnets are indiscriminate killers which can capture and drown iconic threatened species like dugongs in minutes. Fishers may be illegally mutilating endangered species to attract sharks to devour the carcasses.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-23/endangered-species-found-dead-calls-to-ban-gillnets/102243094
#Dugongs #Sawfish #GreenTurtles #By-catch