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These animals inhabit ocean ecosystems that are also heavily used for commercial fishing and maritime transportation.
What are marine mammals?
This fishing gear consists of nets that can unintentionally capture marine mammals.
What are gillnets?
This happens when commercial fishing reduces the availability of food for marine mammals.
What is prey depletion?
These devices emit signals to discourage marine mammals from approaching dangerous fishing gear.
What are acoustic deterrents?
This term describes the unintentional capture of marine mammals in fishing gear
What is bycatch?
This term describes abandoned fishing lines and nets that continue to pose dangers to marine animals.
What is ghost gear?
When fisheries and marine mammals target the same prey species, they may experience this type of interaction.
What is competition?
Changing fishing equipment to reduce the risk of accidental capture is an example of this mitigation approach.
What is modified fishing gear?
This interaction occurs when marine mammals remove or damage fish caught in fishing gear, causing economic losses for fishers.
What is depredation?
Being trapped in fishing lines or nets can cause these four serious outcomes: restricted movement, injuries, starvation, and this life-threatening outcome.
What is drowning?
This fishing practice can damage seafloor habitats and the benthic communities that support prey species.
What is bottom trawling?
These restrictions temporarily prohibit or limit fishing in particular locations or during specific periods to reduce risks to marine mammals.
What are time-area fishing closures?
In this type of interaction, marine mammals and fishers coordinate their behavior to catch fish, potentially benefiting both.
What is cooperative fishing?
These two types of nets cause the greatest amount of cetacean and marine mammal bycatch.
What are gillnets and other entangling nets?
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What is 2?
NOAA recommends these two forms of observation and research to improve understanding of marine animal distribution, alongside tagging and other research activities (name at least 1).
What are aerial surveys and acoustic monitoring?
This Brazilian location is known for interactions between Lahille’s bottlenose dolphins and artisanal fishers.
What is Laguna, Brazil?
Static nets, ropes from pots and traps, and longlines are especially dangerous to these large whales.
What are North Atlantic right whales?
Removing specific species or sizes of fish can change these relationships between organisms, altering the structure and function of ecosystems.
What are predator–prey relationships?
NOAA recommends analyzing this information, together with vessel traffic data, to better understand and address incidents in which vessels strike marine animals.
What is information on vessel-strike events?