Less fishing gear could save more humpback whales
Reducing the amount of fishing gear in the water could go a long way to saving humpback whales while having little impact on crab fishers.
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Reducing the amount of fishing gear in the water could go a long way to saving humpback whales while having little impact on crab fishers.
Sometimes simple solutions are better. It all depends on the nature of the problem. For humpback whales, the problem is the rope connecting a crab trap on
Sometimes simple solutions are better. It all depends on the nature of the problem. For humpback whales, the problem is the rope connecting a crab trap on the seafloor to the buoy on the surface. And for fishermen, it's fishery closures caused by whale entanglements.
Sometimes simple solutions are better. It all depends on the nature of the problem. For humpback whales, the problem is the rope connecting a crab trap on the seafloor to the buoy on the surface. And for fishermen, it's fishery closures caused by whale entanglements.
The team found that reducing the amount of gear used by the fishermen was more impactful in reducing whale deaths than other hi-tech options.