yet up to 1km of #gillnets can be used by a single commercial #barramundi fisher at the mouth of the Roper River every single day for eight months each year.
The NT Government's new plan to protect endangered sawfish and rare river sharks from the commercial #BarramundiFishery is fundamentally flawed. There was no opportunity for the public to have their say in their #protection, despite the NT Government's assurance otherwise.
5/8
https://www.topendcoasts.org.au/protect_threatened_species_from_gillnets
SAVING SAWFISH & SPEARTOOTH SHARKS π¦
#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
1/8
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
d) From the #LeichhardtRiver north around the #SouthWellesleyIslands, #BountifulIslands, #MorningtonIsland and #WellesleyIslands south to #Gangalidda.
Fishers should be fairly compensated and offered appropriate training and transition programs. All #gillnets that are purchased and recovered must be #upcycled where possible.
- Shark Champions π¦
#SaveOurSeas #ProtectOurWildlife
4/4
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
#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 β¦ 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.β
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-23/endangered-species-found-dead-calls-to-ban-gillnets/102243094
#Dugongs #Sawfish #GreenTurtles #By-catch
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