Sea-CTV? Conservationists call for video surveillance of fishing vessels as study reveals hundreds of thousands of turtles, seals, dolphins and seabirds accidentally die in nets each year
19/11/2020
MailOnline | English.
Bycatch from fishing nets is causing the accidental death of hundreds of thousands of seabirds, seals, turtles and dolphins across the globe each year, a study warned.
In response, the World Wide Fund for Nature and Sky Ocean Rescue have called for fishing vessels to be remotely monitored with cameras, to help address the issue.
According to the WWF's 'What's in the net?' report, millions of sharks, at least 720,000 seabirds and 345,000 seals or sealions are accidentally caught each year.