This vid made about endangered turtles (and rays, sharks, birds..) by longline fishing off the Central America Pacific coast...
Bycatch is paying the full price!
Blue water hunting gives us the chance to see the damage...
BWH and longline fishing
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Good job helping the turtles!
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Kudos Philippe for helping the sea creatures. Interesting video.
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Thank,s for your feed back!
unfortunately about 50% of released turtles die in the next 3 months
most of the time because they swallow the hook..a lot of bait made with ray meat (including manta) taken as by catch
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San Virgili :religion::D
A good action on your part :thumbsup2::clap2::yay:, should be instructed by the governments to direct campaigns to professional fishermen the use of anti-tortoise hooks.
The modifications in the hooks are the most effective. Wider hooks reduce turtle capture and the proportion of swallows without compromising the commercial viability of swordfish in the North Atlantic (Gilman et al., 2006), but this is not the case in other fisheries. The shape determines the position where it joins: in the circular hooks they do it in the jaw or the mouth and in the hooks in J they do it internally. The change to circular hooks reduces catches and post-release mortality (delayed mortality) in the loggerhead turtle because they tend to be caught when they bite and it is more externally hooked and easier to release (Gilman et al. (2003), Bolten & Bjorndal (2005), Watson et al. The change in shape is effective in certain fisheries and areas, such as swordfish (keeping catches (Piovano et al., 2009)) and tintorera in the Azores (Bolten & Bjorndal 2005). Therefore, circular hooks do not reduce the catches of the target species and involve a low investment, but they make it difficult for fishermen to harvest and tend to be more fragile with regard to J hooks (Gilman et al., 2006). Thus, the application of circular hooks in swordfish fisheries in the Mediterranean and in the Northwest Atlantic may represent a simple and inexpensive technique for reducing turtle catches (Piovano et al., 2009; Al. 2006, 2007). The direct mortality of the hooks is low, since 80% of the released ones are alive, but the delayed mortality depends very much on the position of the hook (Camiñas & Valeiras, 2001).
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thank's for your friendly feed back!
anti-tortoise hooks gets widely used on the north east Atlantic coast for bluefin tuna fishing in particular...swordfish fishing is made by harpooning...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itxFj6UjJ0
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