State lawmakers want to end a fishing practice that hauls in millions of dollars a year and puts swordfish on restaurant plates – and might be an all-too-efficient killer of dolphin and whales. The culprit is the drift gillnet. A… Read More ›
Drift Gillnets
Endangered Whales Killed in Drift Gillnets Off Pacific West Coast
April 22, 2013 Contact: Catherine Kilduff, (415) 644-8580, ckilduff@biologicaldiversity.org California Fishery Declared One of Deadliest for Endangered Whales SAN FRANCISCO— A federal report released today ranks California’s drift gillnet fishery one of the nation’s deadliest fisheries for marine mammals. The… Read More ›
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