A Longline Hook That Prevents Bird Bycatch?
A British biologist has invented and trialed a new device that prevents seabird bycatch on tuna long-line catches. South Atlantic press, Mercopress, said tuna longliners set around three billion hooks annually, and an estimated 300,000 birds are killed trying to...
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