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Fishing Australia |
Fish File Interesting and specialised online information about Australian fish. There are details about more than 100 salt and fresh water species. Anglers with email addresses submit fishing reports. |
Fishing
Earth |
Marine
Stewardship Council (MSC) |
BTN:
Making school fun with fishing 17 June 2019 |
BTN:
Fish School 21 June 2022 |
Behind
the News - Competitive Fishing 30 April 2013 |
Behind
the News - Fishing: Reel Sport 15 February 2011 |
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The
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The
Conversation 15 March 2019 |
Did You Know? "Each year around 640,000 tonnes of fishing gear is lost or thrown overboard by the fisheries around the world. These “ghostnets” drift through the oceans and can continue fishing for many years. They kill huge numbers of marine mammals, sea turtles and sea birds, and cause significant loss of biodiversity. One study showed fur seal populations declined around 5% each year. Ghostfishing of commercially valuable fish species also reduces food resources. Ghostnets are a global problem: they’re found even on remote atolls thousands of kilometres from commercial ports. But they are a particular problem in Australia’s Gulf of Carpentaria. Here ghostnets wash ashore at densities reaching up to three tonnes/km, among the highest in the world..... Ghostfishing in the Gulf is known to kill sharks, crocodiles, and dugongs, as well as other fish and invertebrates. But it is turtles that are most at threat. Australia is home to six of the world’s seven threatened species of marine turtle. During a recent cleanup of ghostnets on beaches in the Gulf, 80% of animals recorded in nets were marine turtles, including Olive Ridley, Hawksbill, Green and Flatback turtles. Getting tangled in ghostnets is one of the most common causes of death for marine turtles in Australia." (Source: The Conversation) Go and have a look at this website if you are interested in helping this with issue in the Northern Territory! |