11. Animals get tangled in fishing nets and drown. 12. A survey by Liverpool University has shown that drowning in fishing nets is one of the commonest causes of dolphin and porpoise deaths in the waters around Britain. 13. Many seals are shot or killed with dynamite after being trapped in fishing nets. 14. Large numbers of drowned dolphins are being washed up on the south-western coasts of England, apparently as a result of being caught in fishing nets. 15. Penguins and seals have been found entangled in lengths of fishing net, some of them dead and many others badly hurt. 16. The increase is unexplained, although theories include a rise in the local dolphin population and entanglement with fishing nets. 17. Some people use the money to buy fishing nets. 18. Another method likely to be discussed, he said, is mandatory tagging of fishing nets so discarded or lost nets can be identified. 19. Boat crews used gaff hooks and fishing nets to pull up debris. 20. A large piece of wreckage lies near the recorders and searchers will try to raise it Thursday with fishing nets. |