1. The Concise English DOCtionary

Contact Us | Site Map Home About DOC Explore Conservation Regional Info Community Publications What ...
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2. National Fisheries Institute, Inc.

... Driftnets: type of floating gillnet kept on the surface, or just below it, by numerous floats and held vertical by a weighted foot rope. These nets drift freely with the currently, either separately ...
http://www.icfa.net/news/glossary.php

3. EEA - Themes - fishery - Accidental by-catch: birds, mammals and turtles

... Driftnets pose the major threat and the imposed ban in their use at the beginning of 2002 is hoped to aid the recovery of the population. Data on bird mortality rates in the Mediterranean exist only ...
http://themes.eea.eu.int/ ...05,2004.05/index_html

4. Sea Turtles, Sea Turtles Information

... In addition, thousands of sea turtles become entangled in longlines, driftnets, coastal gill nets and other discarded fishing gear each year. Marine Debris Litter and other marine debris can prove ...
http://www.allthesea.com/Sea-Turtles.html

5. tursiops.org

... The change is linked with the recent decision by agriculture ministers of the European Union calling for a ban on the use of driftnets for catching salmon and whitefish in the Baltic Sea. The ban ...
http://tursiops.org/modul ...ame=News&new_topic=10

6. Ocean News - April 2, 2004

... The main regulatory changes are; driftnets will be phased out in the Baltic Sea by 2008; the use of ëpingersí or acoustic deterrent devices on fishing nets will become compulsory on vessels over 15m ...
http://www.osdcmaui.org/news/2004/04_02_2004.html

7. Governor Frank Murkowski

... He also led the successful effort to ban driftnets from the high seas, worked to stop salmon piracy, ended the ban on the export of North Slope crude oil, and won major legislation to help improve ...
http://www.gov.state.ak.us/bio.php

8. WWF | Newsroom | Archive

Join WWF| Member Login| Take Action| Donate Now Search DISCOVER Endangered Wildlife Wild Places ...
http://www.worldwildlife.org/news/mainarchive.cfm

9. Robert Evans, MEP

... Animal Welfare Briefings - Driftnets 27 Jul 2005 Driftnets In 1998, in response to the conservation and welfare problems caused by driftnetting, EU fisheries ministers agreed to phase out the use of ...
http://www.robertevansmep ...blications/index.html

10. Tom Campbell's Accomplishments

... Still photographer for Howard Hallís documentary "Incidental Kill" focusing on species that become incidental kill in the use of driftnets, such as pinnipeds and other pelagic marine animals. High ...
http://www.tomcampbell.com/accomplishments.htm

11. Dolphin Education Project - Cetaceans

... Driftnets This method of fishing has been referred to as "vacuuming" the ocean by one author and as "the most indiscriminate method of fishing ever devised", by another. Drift nets are huge nets ...
http://www.dolphinresearc ...ucation_cateceans.htm

12. Greenpeace Foundation Campaigns:

... Driftnets can strip-mine the life out of an area in only a few seasons, leaving a lifeless watery desert. Greenpeace Foundation created the fight to ban them, a fight still in progress to save whales ...
http://www.greenpeacefoun ...om/action/actions.cfm

13. Senator Stevens Honors The Fallen And Those Who Serve This Memorial Day Weekend

... The High Seas Driftnet Fisheries Enforcement Act banned the use, in American waters, of monofilament driftnets, which indiscriminately catch seals, sea otters, diving ducks, and other sea creatures ...
http://www.senate.gov/~stevens/pr/pr010504.htm

14. STCNC - Sea Turtles Species of Baja

... The combination of egg poaching and bycatch in driftnets and on longlines has resulted in a sharp decline in Pacific populations. The nesting beaches in Baja California, near Todos Santos, where this ...
http://baja.seaturtle.org/turtles.shtml

15. Marine and Coastal Community Network | Article | Wetstuff News 10 August 2005

... 7. Italian Government Violating European Union Ban on Use of Driftnets (International)? 8. National ... ... 7. Italian Government Violating European Union Ban on Use of Driftnets (International)? Source: www ...
http://www.mccn.org.au/article.php/id/643/

16. Human Impact on Oceans

... Huge "wall of death" driftnets have entrapped mammals as large as whales and cut into them down to the bone, causing a long painful death from wounds and suffocation. Millions of dolphins have ...
http://www.eco-pros.com/humanimpact.htm

17. Tilos Park Newsletter: Biodiversity

Tilos Park Newsletter Tilos Park is an Environmental Non-Profit NGO. [ISSN: 1790-1421] About Recent ...
http://tilos-park.typepad ...odiversity/index.html

18. Oceans Alive - Glossary

... The United Nations bans the use of driftnets in international waters, and the United States limits the length of driftnets to 1.5 miles/2.4 kilometers in its waters. Dropline A fishing line with one ...
http://www.oceansalive.or ...e.cfm?subnav=glossary

19. Seiont Gwyrfai & Llyfni Angling Association Home page

... NEWYDD / NEW - 11/7/05 Click Here For More Info On Reporting Illegal Netting Stop Salmon Driftnets Now news Links to other sites Mail the Master Fisherman Next Page Click here: to vote for this ...
http://www.hgt.gwynedd.gov.uk/sg/Default.htm

20. DolphinNet.org Directory: Charities and Conservation

... We strive to eliminate dolphin mortality caused by the international tuna fishing industry, to end the use of driftnets, and to stop tuna purse-seine fishers from encircling dolphins in their nets ...
http://www.dolphinnet.org ...ies_and_Conservation/

21. Planet Debate

... Sequestration Coast Guard DA Coastal Areas Coral Reefs Cruise Ships Decomissioning Deep Ecology Driftnets Ecopsychology Education Energy Energy Efficiency Fishing Fishing Quotas Fishing Subsidies ...
http://www.planetdebate.com/scripts/research.asp

22. ::Ballina Chamber of Commerce::

... The Government must immediately buy out all driftnets, compensating the licence holders who through no fault the own have become involved and confine commercial fishing to inshore bays and estuaries ...
http://www.ballinachamber.com/news.shtml

23. Italy continues illegal use of driftnets

... Whale Watching Whaling and Dolphin 08/10/2005 01:49:52 PM Italy continues illegal use of driftnets Fishermen are continuing to use large scale driftnets in the Mediterranean, despite the ...
http://www.wdcs.org/dan/p ...3129E8025705900467BE0

24. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE

... We strive to eliminate dolphin mortality caused by the international tuna fishing industry, to end the use of driftnets, and to stop tuna purse-seine fishers from encircling dolphins in their nets ...
http://www.captivitystinks.org/difference.html

25. Surfbirds News: Endangered Turtles Face New Threat on the West Coast

... Known as "curtains of death" because they catch and kill everything in their path, large gillnets (also known as driftnets) were banned by the United Nations on the high seas in 1991. Along with sea ...
http://www.surfbirds.com/ ...ndangered_turt_1.html

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27. Template for Categories

... U.S., Others on EU Proposal to Phase Out Driftnets, July 24, 2003 State Department Official Urges Actions Against Overfishing, June 12, 2003 A European Union (EU) policy promoting excess catch of the ...
http://www.useu.be/Catego ...e/Fisheries/index.htm

28. Healing Time on Earth

... Whales, seals, dolphins, marine birds, and turtles are killed in the driftnets. Their lives are wasted. Sam sums it up as strip-mining the high seas. His footage on that has brought changes at the ...
http://www.wildnesswithin.com/heal.html

29. Ministry for Rural Affairs & the Environment - Fishing gear

... Info. Fishing gear Fishing vessels Fishery science glossary Fishing gear Click here to see fishing gears chart GILLNETS AND ENTANGLING NETS Ghezula tat-Tisqif / Ghezula tal Mitlaq (Driftnets) These ...
http://www.maltafisheries ...info_fishinggears.htm

30. Wellington Convention

Internet Guide to International Fisheries Law CONVENTION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF FISHING WITH LONG DRIFTNETS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC (AND PROTOCOLS) SUMMARY BACK The Parties to this Convention ...
http://www.oceanlaw.net/texts/wellington.htm

31. NOAA News Releases 1999

... 88 Million Project 3/19/99 Geraldine Knatz Voted Chair-elect of Sea Grant Panel 3/19/99 Frank Kudrna Elected Chair of Sea Grant Panel 3/19/99 Commerce Department Identifies Italy For Use of Driftnets ...
http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases99/

32. save our seas History

... When the logs were turned in and data compiled, it was determined that 90 percent of the contamination sightings consisted of plastics--driftnets mostly. There were contamination sightings at least ...
http://www.saveourseas.or ...NPAGES/sosHistory.htm