Fishing nets and trawling devices may in some instances get caught on underwater cultural sites.
Meanwhile, the device is also being attached to fishing nets to prevent sharks stealing fishermen's catch.
The fishing nets themselves are considered toxic after the years of catching so much sea life.
It is estimated that many thousands die each year in European waters after becoming entangled in fishing nets.
He constructed goals from driftwood and fishing nets he found on the beach.
"The most dire threat to them comes in the form of accidental deaths caused fishing nets, " said Ms Mansur.
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Only about 150 vaquita are left, and about 30 are dying each year through becoming entangled in fishing nets.
Dolphins caught in old fishing nets, drowning because they can't break free.
But biologist June said the group is working on a plan that would have the nets burned, creating energy from lost fishing nets.
In that respect, they are heirs to Bruno Munari, who advocated a design award for ubiquitous anonymous objects such as padlocks and fishing nets.
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They're worried, it turns out, about getting caught in shrimp-fishing nets.
But the new bill could lead to the removal of limits on incidental kills, which protect animals like sea turtles or dolphins caught in fishing nets.
The scene was blissfully beautiful: a placid expanse of water with patches of lotuses floating here and there, birds swooping and settling, children splashing, adults wading with fishing nets.
Instead of bark canoes, today you can hire sturdy sea kayaks, and in place of fishing nets, pack enough food and water to last a week.
One sunny evening in early August, Stig Jansson is rinsing fishing nets at his boathouse on the island, while his son-in-law Jarmo Ylitelo cuts perch fillets to be smoked and sold.
They are mainly transported over longer distances on boat hulls, but larvae and fragments can also be spread by fishing equipment, the movement of fishing nets and tidal currents.
They remained there for thousands of years and eventually tidal currents and dredging released the fossilised remains, which were caught in the fishing nets of a trawler earlier this year.
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But thanks to a small piece of the federal stimulus recovery plan, Monk, Woodside and about 40 other fishermen will get back to work hauling in a very different catch: lost fishing nets.
The team of 15 girls from various departments under the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) collected, during a 15-minute exercise, 53 aluminium cans, 45 plastic bottles, nearly 30 plastic fragments including bags, packaging, bottle tops, five large aluminium food trays and about 25kg of fishing nets and nylon ropes.
Plastic barrels, fishing gear and nets, and one full barrel of used diesel oil were also among the items collected.
The tools of industrial fishing (drift nets, bottom trawls, and longlines) compensate for the diminishment of marine life that they cause by taking what little is left all the more intensively.
In modern times, the hook is becoming less important as commercial fishing ventures rely more and more upon massive nets, although certain industrial fishing techniques--such as longline fishing--still depend on the humble hook.
"Communities of fishermen and these fishing villages own these nets, " Graham said.
Their arrival has been a disaster for many fishing communities, breaking nets and gear, crushing the fish catch or spoiling it with poisonous tentacles.
The 750kg (1, 650lb) unexploded World War II (WWII) weapon was placed on the sea bed after it was caught in the nets of a fishing boat earlier in the week.
Industrial Ota was built on the foundations of an ancient fishing village, where men cast their nets as a group and housewives dried seaweed together.
He thought Tyre an economically thriving but insufficiently holy place that should be reduced to nothing more than a fishing village with plenty of open space to "spread fish nets" to dry.
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