Bering Sea Bottom Trawlers Reduce Killer Whale Take as New Gear Shows Promise
Trawlers targeting flatfish In the Bering Sea deployed underwater web fences this summer to try to keep killer whales from getting entangled In their nets pulled along the ocean bottom. During a season that stretched from May to September, one killer whale was caught, an Improvement from last year when nine whales were accidentally taken.
The web fence stretches across a wide swath of the net mouth, acting as a barrier to whales while not blocking flsh passage Into the net. And this year's reduced killer...
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