- RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
- 24 November 2022
Such interventions could greatly trim accidental catches of threatened species.
The fig of bluish sharks (Prionace glauca) successful fishery by-catches was chopped by 91% acknowledgment to a instrumentality that uses electrical signals to deter the creatures. Credit: Nick Hawkins/Nature Picture Library
More than 30% of shark and ray taxon are edging towards extinction, chiefly due to the fact that they are unintentionally caught by fishers targeting tuna and different commercially invaluable species. A caller instrumentality mightiness assistance to support immoderate of these threatened taxon distant from sportfishing hooks.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03776-4
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