Fishermen call to mandate use of seabird mitigation devices

摘要

THE SOUTH EAST Trawl Fishing Industry Association (SETFIA) and the Great Australian Bight Fishing Industry Association (GABIA) have developed world leading technology that reduces interactions between trawlers and seabirds by up to 96%.Plans are in place to roll this technology out across the trawl fleet.In 2010 the trawl industry supported ! a management rule which saw all trawl vessels use pinkies - large brightly coloured inflatable boys that physically push seabirds to the sides of the two warps where they enter the water. Pinkies have proven to reduce seabird warp strikes by around 75%, but pinkies can become tangled in fishing gear and the industry believed it could do better to further reduce interactions with seabirds.