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Tons of submerged fishing gear found.(Marine Life)(Brief article)
Scuba divers helped recover nearly 10 tons of lost and abandoned fishing gear from the waters around the California Channel Islands in the first year of a unique project based at the University of California, Davis. The cleanup included nearly 250 commercial lobster traps, numerous fishing rods and sport traps, and a huge fishing net covering 5,000 square feet of the seafloor.
"Our priority in the pilot year of the California Derelict Fishing Gear Removal Project was simply to get the project off the ground," explains wildlife health specialist Kirsten Gilardi. "We had no idea that, in the process of testing and refining our methods, we would find and remove as much derelict fishing gear as we did."
The huge fishing net was a purse seine--the type used to catch anchovies and sardines. It weighed 4,000 pounds and was snagged on a rocky reef in 80 to 100 feet of water at the eastern end of Santa Rosa Island. Lost and abandoned fishing gear can be dangerous to wildlife, ...
- Frank J. Zanti, 67 Owner of Commercial Lobster Co.
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe September 9, 1995 700+ words
Frank J. Zanti of Somerville, former proprietor of the Commercial Lobster Co. in Boston, died Thursday in Somerville Hospital. He was 67. Mr. Zanti, who was known as Blondie, was born in Boston...
- LOST FISHING GEAR ANOTHER THREAT TO SOUND.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) November 26, 2002 700+ words
...other fishing equipment, known as derelict fishing gear. Often the fishing gear simply continues to do what it was designed...Straits Commission locate and identify derelict fishing gear underwater, in coves, on beaches and elsewhere...
- JAPANESE FISHING GEAR CO. TO OPEN SALES OFFICE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News May 10, 2006 700+ words
...TSE:7990) aims to expand sales of fishing gear in the U.S. by opening a business office...Seiko has relied on OEM production of fishing gear sold in the U.S. Daiwa Seiko's fishing gear is mainly sold through Wal-Mart stores...
- Fishing gear factory reels in jobs for welfare recipients. (Metropolitan Tulsa...
- Magazine article from: HRMagazine March 1, 1997 700+ words
...leading its stores with inexpensive fishing gear. WalMart told Zebco that the fishing...but found that all the low-cost fishing gear was being produced overseas - mostly...guaranteed a two-year contract to purchase fishing gear manufactured by the chamber's InDex...
- DAIWA SEIKO TO DEVELOP FISHING GEAR SALES IN TAIWAN, HONG KONG.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News August 3, 2006 700+ words
...Aug 3 Asia Pulse - To expand sales of fishing gear in East Asia, Daiwa Seiko Inc. (TSE...per cent. The Japanese firm sells its fishing gear in Taiwan through a network of 300 stores...subsidiary. The domestic market for fishing gear has reached a ceiling, prompting Daiwa...
- Fishermen protest against use of illegal fishing gear
- Newspaper article from: Daily Mirror July 29, 2009 700+ words
...action against racketeers who use illegal fishing gear and cause extensive damage to fisheries...the fishermen who use the prohibited fishing gear. "We will give them two week's time...Purse -Seine nets and other illegal fishing gear before taking legal action against them...
- Ships, Fishing Gear Continue to Threaten Right Whales in Georgia Waters.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 26, 2001 700+ words
...ships and entanglement in some types of fishing gear are the biggest threats to right whales...died as a result of entanglement in fishing gear." There are some new regulations for stationary fishing gear -- like lobster pots and long lines...
- `Ghost nets' haunt waters: Abandoned fishing gear endangers marine life.(The...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Karmon, Eran June 26, 2002 700+ words
...also hope to create a database of lost fishing gear for future removal, as well as a protocol...currents push huge amounts of derelict fishing gear toward the northwestern islands of Hawaii...annual commercial octopus harvest. Lost fishing gear is also a hazard for divers. On Earth...
