Strengthening Sustainable Fisheries and Protecting Marine Ecosystems
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Time-tension line cutters offer a potential tool to mitigate whale entanglements in deepwater fisheries
The first MarineGuardian scientific article has been published in the ICES journal of marine science, written by Freya Snow, Paul D. Winger, Tomas Araya- Schmidt and Geneive Peck. Abstract: Entanglement in vertical buoy lines from fixed-gear fisheries remains a primary threat to the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis, NARW). Low breaking strength
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