#bycatch

[prose2passion]

A new study has revealed the potential for sensory deterrents to reduce marine megafauna bycatch in fisheries.

#science #ecology #marine biology #fisheries #bycatch

[lastingocean]

It’s World turtle day!

Here are some interesting facts about the status of sea turtles globally:

As we mark world turtle day here are some interesting facts about sea turtles:

There are only 7 species of sea turtles

6 of these species are classified as endangered with human actions being their largest threat.

These threats include(poaching,vessel collisions,habitat loss,pollution,bycatch)

All species are protected under the Endangered Species Act(ESA)

Together with marine mammals,they make up 38% of the listed endangered marine species

It is estimated that only 1 in 1000 hatchlings make it into adulthood (quite sad considering that their populations are declining globally)

The temperature of sand in nesting beaches affects the gender of sea turtles . The warmer the sand the higher the ratio of female turtles and vice versa.

Apart from increasing temperatures, the amount of plastic trapped in the sand also has an effect on the gender ratio as plastic traps and retains heat .

The fact that most of these threats are human induced means it much more easier to eliminate them compared to issues like climate changes. Changing human behaviour is key in the successful conservation of sea turtles.

#turtlesofinstagram #conservation #ocean #marine biology #marine life #marine science #sustainable #sustainability #bycatch #marineconservation #world turtle day

[rewritingextinction]

Don't get it twisted!

50% of ocean plastic comes from, you guessed it, fishing nets! Fishing equipment discarded by the fishing industry is left to slowly break down and fill our oceans with microplastics.

These nets are not only highly pollutant, they also bring great harm to marine wildlife, who can get trapped in and suffocated by abandoned gear.

Reducing our plastic pollution as consumers is highly important, but large industries need to take responsibility for their waste and their environmental impact.

Don't let them shift the blame.

TheJustComics

#rewritingextinction #environment #fishing industry #plastic pollution #bycatch #marine animals #wildlife

[benthicsbelow]

Day 182 (half way through).

Today I got in the water to mark getting half way through my challenge. I had made plans to dip early with Michelle, then go for a celebratory coffee. But I woke up feeling fluey so decided to go down later for a quiet dip on my own. 

After walking Sid and watching a pod of dolphins cruise by earlier in the day, I finally went down to M Bay around 3.30pm. I didn't take my dive things cause I thought I would only feel well enough to dip. However, when I saw the water, I got back in the car and drove home to get them.

When am I going to learn to always be prepared for a dive?

It wasn’t a particularly spectacular day in the ocean. The water was flat and the afternoon sun was dropping below the clouds. But it was the fact that I had the chance to get in that made me excited and so so grateful for where I live. I mean, this is the point of this whole challenge, right? To do the thing that defines me everyday - to get in the ocean and spend time with the creatures so I know who I am? And here in front of me was another opportunity to do that, so I chose to take it.

The visibility was murky on the way to the island and then misty when I got there due to the lack of light. Feeling grateful and hopeful about seeing my friends, I scooted around the front of the island until I saw the first creature. An Eagle Ray. I could see something sitting on it’s wing, I thought it had an orca injury, so I slowly slinked down to take a look. This little being was only a juvenile (it still had some of its blue spots) and when I got closer, I was heart broken to see it was pierced by two hooks (one in the wing and one in the spiracle) with thick fishing line tied between them. This poor creature was tearing its own flesh every time it tried to swim - aaaaaaaggggh! Without thinking it through, I reached out to try and free it, but the ray freaked out and swam off. I could see that it was able to move reasonably well but I felt terrible for startling it and potentially hurting it more. I took a minute or so to look for it, wondering how I could navigate removing the hooks without getting a barb to the chest, but it had gone. 

I felt so defeated... what is the universe trying to tell me... does it send me these creatures so I can tell their stories?

I felt so hopeless that I considered not taking any more photos for the whole dive, making the tangled ray the first and only photo to mark the occasion. But then I thought about what is necessary to make people want to protect the creatures of the ocean. And the only way I can support that is to try and change peoples attitude towards the ocean by helping them learn to love it, and my photos help to do that.

So I overcame my sadness and went out looking for some shots. There wasn't much to photograph, but I did love seeing the little sponge growing after all the damage the marine heatwave did this season.

So here’s to another 183 days (give or take a few hours or so) of opportunities  to take photos which make people care more for our ocean.

#marine conservation #bycatch #eagle ray #porifera #sea sponge #winter diving #new zealand #ocean #free diving #underwater #under water photography

[daisylovesrumble]

Action Center | Animal Welfare Institute

The risk of getting caught in fishing gear as "bycatch" is the leading threat to whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals. Every year, more than 650,000 marine mammals worldwide die or suffer serious injury when they are enveloped in nets or pierced by fishhooks.

#animal rights #animal welfare #animal rights activist #animaladvocate #environmentalist #activist #activism #the ocean #sea life #cetacean #bycatch #ghostnets #animalwelfareinstitute #take action

[catadromously]

despite everything, it's still you

#taishe art #coelacanth #marine biology #latimeria #the need to go bonkers honkers about coelacanths is never far. me when i drop off the face of the earth for 60myr presumed dead then show #up in the bycatch completely fine

[aiyanimation]

Picture drawn last Mermay!

---------------------------- Every year thousands of dolphins are killed due to bycatch by the fishing industry, greatly depleting their numbers and leaving distraught dolphins to mourn the loss of loved ones. One of the best ways we can help stop this is to reduce, or even better, completely stop consuming fish and seafood. For more information on the topic: https://youtu.be/ZU6LcIxVdvA Ways to get Omega 3 without eating fish: https://www.eatingwell.com/article/291962/8-best-vegan-omega-3-rich-foods/

#art #artists on tumblr #artist #no ai art #illustration #cartoon style #animal art #digital art #mermaid art #mermay 2023 #dolphin art #animal rights #bycatch #vegan for the animals #veganism

[unofficial-sean]

Saint Peter and Saint Paul Archipelago, 205m, female of 280cm to 300cm TL, unnamed Brazilian handline fishermen.

#hexanchus griseus #saint peter and saint paul archipelago #bycatch #fishermen

[worldtunaday]

Estimated size, weight and weight at size conversion factors for Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks.

Highlighted weight - size functions correspond to the annual equations representing overall mean for the population. Size measures are straight fork length (SFL), curved fork length (CFL), length 1st dorsal spine (LD1), head length straight line from snout to operculum (HeadL), preopercular length straight line from the snout to preoperculum (PreOP). Weight measures are round weight: weight of the whole fish (RWT); gutted weight: weight without guts and gonads (GWT); gutted and gilled: weight without guts, gonads and gills (GGWT); gutted gilled and tailed: weight without guts, gonads, gills and tail (GGTWT); and dressed weight: weight of fish gutted, head and tail off (DWT). All size units are centimeters (cm) and weight in kilograms (kg).

#bluefin tuna #bycatch #ICCAT-CICTA-CICA #tunaspecies

[corvidaedaze]

Do you know that every life is still a life, and social animals like dolphins are very close to us in terms of development and personality, loss of life aside

A unfortunate catch, all caught up in a net, tail tilted upwards with a arm and some hair hanging out the dip created by the slack on the other side. But also, wouldn't fisherman care more about by catch if the lives needlessly lost looked back with a human face?

Then it's be harder for them to ignore since the other evidence for some reason isn't enough to care about, for some reason.

#artists on tumblr #traditional drawing #traditional media #nautical #naitical art #ocean #oceanic #oceanic mythos #mermaids #bycatch #mixed media #mixed medium #bycatch awareness

[pigeongryphon]

vaquita requiem

#art #artists on tumblr #animals #cetaceans #marine mammals #porpoises #vaquita #morbid #bones #death #bycatch #endangered species #monochrome #obviously yinyang inspired

[prose2passion]

this is out today in Curr Biol and open access.

#bycatch #marine biology #ecology #fisheries #sharks

[pallaskissa]

Every now and then I find myself painting frames to my comic and realizing I actually made something extra nice. So here you go, bigger resolution of my favorite frame from chapter 1.

You can find Bycatch -comic from:

https://tapas.io/series/Bycatch/info

Since I am very sporadic in uploading to Tumblr, I recommend subscribing there for updates.

#Bycatch #webcomic #comic #merman #siren #fantasy #gay #lgbtq webcomic #Ripple #Seren #hugs #cuddles #digital art #digital painting #sea #ocean

[genderkoolaid]

i think trans-affirming cisfeminism's problem is that it views trans people as a way of analyzing cis gender relations, so trans women are going from the status of cis men to cis women, & trans men vice-versa. there is no appreciation for "trans" as its own status, because that would require viewing transphobia as something the patriarchy does on purpose instead of like. something it trips into on its quest to oppress cis women exclusively. and this is also why by and large feminism (including trans feminists) has fucked sucked at talking about NB/GQ people's experiences without binarizing them

#m. #honestly i think understanding all of the different versions of transphobia #are vital to understanding transphobia holistically #like the idea that that trans people are patriarchal bycatch is very similar #to the idea that trans men are never targeted on purpose & only experience ''misdirected'' oppression #the need to force trans experiences into the cis man/cis woman binary is a form of exorsexism #i think a lot more has been said abt transmisogyny but the idea of trans people as being acceptable victims of #violence bc we arent ''real women'' or ''real men'' #something something this is why: #transunity

[attractthecrows]

entertaining myself by inflicting bastard children on my faves

#its fun #warthrop and will henry go to the gulf coast for some reason #COINCIDENTALLY to the same shitty little seaside town that alyne's mom moved to when she left boston #shes like dropping hints that she fucked pellinore at least one time and he does not notice #until little alyne bursts in carrying a bucket full of sea water and some weird thing she found in the bycatch #marches right past all of them to dump it into a fish tank and starts poking it with a swizzle stick #(i cant decide if this is like a sea star or an urchin or some sort of cephalopod. or maybe a lionfish) #pellinore's like Who The Fuck Is That and alyne's mom goes My daughter! I had her after a rather interesting night with you in Boston #you should introduce yourself :3 #oh who's the father? you're the father you forgetful tease. altho i suppose you were drunk enough not to remember our tumble #and pellinore is like THIS CLOSE to blowing up on this woman for lying but now alyne's noticed and is staring silently #with her dark owlish eyes #just WATCHING. analyzing. #and he goes What?????? no. no it cant be. are you certain????????????? No I refuse to believe it come along will henry #alyne's mom is like NO YOU PRICK COME BACK HERE and alyne just goes They'll be back. dead certain #but more importantly look at this fucked up fish i found mom i dont think its native. the fishermen said they're poisonous #does that mean their skin is poisonous or is it just the spikes??? #the fishermen said they're more common in the caribbean than in the gulf but now they're in the gulf more #so they're spreading!! isnt that cool??? #and alyne's mom cracks open a beer because that encounter was fucked up.

[shoshimakesstuff]

As I drift closer to sleep But still cannot still cannot find no peace

psd credit | caps

#not me not realizing i had two different fonts in this until i drafted it #c: ronald speirs #bycatch from the last thing #you wanna know what i love? fonts. you wanna know what i hate? fonts. #hi eva hi juno #hi billie #hi charlie