Whales Keep Getting Caught in Fishing Lines. Is the Lobster Industry to Blame?
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2024
- New regulations in Massachusetts ban lobstering in most state waters from February to mid-May. The rules are designed to prevent the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale from getting entangled in fishing gear during its annual northern migration. But for lobstermen the ban is a huge hit and they say their industry isn't causing the problem.
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"The greatest danger in our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."
- Robert Swan
Humanity really does have a habit of totally fucking things up for every other creature that shares this planet with us. We really need to fix that
Hey do you blame a lion for hunting or a beaver for making a dam destroying an ecosystem? Matty boy I feel you don’t really know how the world works.
@@TheChaco31 You don't! You think with an adolescence brain. When lobster is no longer available (me money brain), then you would have to make changes. But go ahead for now, and you will reap what you have sowed. F'ing morons, why do I post sometimes? Oh useless humans who don't OVERSTAND CAUSE AND EFFECT!
@@TheChaco31 Well, do beavers turn almost every tree in the world into a dam? Do lions hunt and kill every prey animal in their ecosystem? The problem isn't that humans consume other organisms or utilize natural resources, the problem is that humans do so at a wildly disproportionate rate. Hence why sustainability is a thing
@@TheChaco31 the animal only do what they have to do for survival, but we as two legged beings take more then we need, people destroy the earth and over hunt and fish because of greed. When all the animals are depleted and the fish gone we will realize we can’t eat money
thought covid was gonna fix that 😕
"if no ones making any money, it doesnt make sense to continue"
the solution to these types of problems is clear
The thing is, the only people who are suffering are ones like you and I. If you’re going to remove someone livelihood without a plan don’t be surprised when they don’t support and resent you.
Yeah but you have to think about human happiness, culture, and livelihoods first. How can we make lobstering safe for whales. Thats the main takeaway
Pretty easy solution.. make a trap with a wireless buoy. When the boat gets above the trap, the driver hits a sonar to activate the buoy. This way, the rope is at the bottom with the trap the entire time until the boat gets there to the location to harvest it. Win win for all. You're welcome. (shrug) Seems pretty cheap and simple to make with a few cheap radio devices like walkie talkie technology, a foam buoy, and some rope.
I run a sustainable farm and it makes a profit. It pisses me off that subsidies keep these corn growers at break even or small net loss, when they need to make changes instead of rocking 1950s practices in a 100k tractor with a computer monitor
@@heavymetalbassist5 👍 if we wish to save this planet we ALL need to adopt much ,our sustainable practices
If there are only about 400 of these whales left in the Atlantic then, we have to find a better way to fish for lobsters.
Yes, or just stop fishing for lobsters.
@@Nyle95 Thats a billion dollar food industry gone
@@nightnight7998 Your point being?
The lines are not the problem it’s the area in wich the traps are set and the law has changes to allow it to be in federal waters not hurting them
Yeah, eating lobster is a caprice ! It's not like it's a staple food !
Whales are worth much more to the sea than a billion $ a year for humans.
Netflix has a movie called Seaspiracy about this and more. Overcatch is killing our planet.
Tragedy of the commons.
The seas are full of plastic. The insects disappear. We are fucked even if climate change is not true
And 99% of the discussion about _Seaspiracy_ is about how they should have went with _conspiraSEA_ instead. 🤦
While overfishing is most certainly a problem, pls point people to more reputable sources than a sensationalistic Netflix documentary. Many of the experts and NGOs within it have disavowed the "documentary" for twisting their words and malishiously misinterpreting the data shown. It was far from good journalism or good science and aimed mostly at shock value and drama.
Netflix is propaganda
Oh hey. It's my town. Just gotta say. A lot of you don't understand how the commercial fishing industry works at all.
Ok. Please explain
fish fish, kill whale, sell fish, profit, repeat
We understand. We're ruining the planet. Slowly, but surely. God damn humans!!!!!!
You know it's gonna be a stupid thought when it starts with "well I think the federal government should..."
Sorry... but saving a CRITICALLY endangered species, so it doesn’t disappear FOREVER, is FAR more important than some people losing 1/4 of their income. HOWEVER, the government should provide them with monetary help, subsidies, etc
A sensible comment
I have no sympathy. These people pick their careers.
Why is the solution always more government spending? The government is already giving out so much free money that people are not returning back to work.
@@giantschwinn8255 phucking radical left ideas.
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/insight/understanding-vessel-strikes
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair.
Whales are killed by shipping such as large cargo ships and cruise ships. These need to be regulated to protect whales. Lobstermen are targeted but are not responsible.
Breakaways, sink rope, trap limits are already in place. It has been well over a decade since lobstering was found to contribute to a whale death.
Agreed. That first woman who spoke said “have them get a new job.” Really that’s all these guys know most of them are probably second or third generation lobster men. I have a good idea how bout she gets a new job. That was probably the worst idea this highly educated woman could possibly come up with. What a joke.
@@timothyklaus9453 The regulation fans on here will just ask for the government to step in yet again. Their solution is always more government funding.
Amen brother! That’s correct!
Ship strikes kill whales not vertical lines. Complete propaganda
It’s funny how Boston aquarium has 3 boat a day 2 times go out an surrounding whales with huge engines charging 40 a ticked they make more than lobsterin
When I was lobstering back in the 90s off the coast of Massachusetts and Long Island we hauled a trawl that had a northern right whale dead in the down line. Nothing to do but cut it loose and let it fall to the bottom. If I remember correctly there was only like 18 Northern right whales at the time. We moved our gear
That's wild. Sounds like new techniques for lobstering might be in order eh there bud. Good on you guys for moving your lines.
Dead whales are the lobsters main food source
@@LeroyBrown a source of food not the main source of food or we would have really really skinny lobsters
@@lc9072 yes, there was no laws regarding lobstering at the time. Although we were offshore about 40 miles Southwest of Block Island and I believe there is no regulation for offshore to this day. Only within 30 miles exclusively economic zone otherwise known as the EEZ
@@lc9072 also, I don't know what they could possibly do other than stop lobstering during migration because offshore lobstering only has a down line on each end of a 1/2 mile-long trawl and maybe 30 to 50 Charles spread over a hundred square miles that's not a lot of line in the water and if they're still getting tangled in them the next option would be to stop lobstering. Although with the technology of today they could probably get away without any down line oh, you would know the location of your troll on the bottom by GPS and you could just throw a grappling hook and dragged it across the end and bring it up without leaving down lines in the water. But the people that take care of this stuff the people who do this research NEVER asked the fisherman for reasonable resolution to the problem
the double standard of loving some animals and neglecting many others is something we need to change.
$$$$$ if the market for whale meat still exist, they will be hunting them as well
Why on earth do you go to Gloucester when you should have come here to Maine- the actual lobster Capitol. Oh that's right bc you dont know what you're doing. Typical Vice
Because Gloucester did it first, Oldest seaport pal 1623.
Lobsterman. What a title
Almost as good as Punisher
Punisher has a wee lil fragile ego
they are endangered because of being over hunted, don't pass the buck onto the lobstermen
That’s correct and ship strikes keep them from rebounding
All so that some random nobody can go to Red Lobster and eat. You can live without god damn lobster.
People are so shellfish
I cook at home so...
I haven't eaten lobster in twenty years. I don't miss it.
Hmmm... talking about it, is making me hungry... for Lobster. Damn it!!
Once upon a time, lobster was fed only to prisoners because it's a bottom-feeder that wasn't fit for human consumption. But then again, once upon a time, entertainers were bottom-rung of society, but now they're worshiped as gods. 🤦
@@user-vn7ce5ig1z I actually knew that about prisoners and lobsters, (and entertainers, from watching "Shakespeare in Love", a wonderful film if you haven't seen it).
I think people are going to miss the big picture here he has been almost a year and a half with no paycheck and as soon as the season starts and he can go back out and get lobsters the new rule comes in saying he can’t get lobsters, so on top of not having a paycheck for almost half the year he’s gonna have to wait a couple of more months and he’s damn near going bankrupt I mean I imagine
@yourmanwatson the world was never intended to last forever. And it will not
When I lived in Boston in the 1980's, seafood prices at my local fish market seemed to be pretty much the same, or even higher, than the prices in upstate N.Y.
They raise the price locally so they can keep the price lower further away just like cars cost the same in Michigan as they do in California. If you went down to the dock you could buy it dirt cheap
who gives a crap about some fisherman and some restaurants when the future of the ocean is at stake
Lolololol plenaty of whales y u think they opened whaling in Scandinavia
Yea who cares about families and local Econ trying to survive in the most expensive state to live in the country. You want to protect right whales? Tell the NOAA research vessel the Auk to not run them over while going 20kts.
It bafflesyme how we ask another human "why must we care about this other animal?" BECAUSE. That's why.
Literally. I don't care about animals "feelings" unless they are conscious. But like, whales are conscious. So it's our duty to protect them.
No
@@lc9072 that and they are responsible for most of our oxygen
@@runswithraptors brains don’t work like that. An animal with a brain the size of a grain of salt has absolutely no preference on anything ever. You can kill all the spiders you want and it still wouldn’t add up to killing one mammal
That's not a reason.
This world is disgusting
Its a 3 month ban get over it, have your government put something in play so when your not fishing you can still receive income. Here in P.E.I we have 2 lobster seasons and there on separate parts of island and different fishing grounds. April 30th-june 30th and August 10th to October 10th. And if not not already being done they should use sinking rope that way animals and props don't get caught it lost gear.
Gov’t won’t help bub
And they won’t let us use sinking rope on endlines
This lady should be fired
Some fishers need to go to jail
Get a job
@@mannysilva459 preferably not on a boat😂
We should be careful on money useage,if you are not spending to earn back,then stop spending.
Apparently my view on the solution is to venture into business .
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Who woulda knew that whales feeding was so detrimental to the sea whales feed alot of fish fish at the bottom of the sea and fish on top
They are examining now how whales reduce carbon in the atmosphere .
news.mongabay.com/2021/03/to-fight-climate-change-save-the-whales-some-scientists-say/
I think the brake away rope is a bad idea, if in the unlikely case of a whale gliding in to a bouyline would cause it to break, cause it to untangle in to the whale, where a strong right rope would not be as likely to entangle a whale
Been a lobstermen since I was six when I first went to haul with my dad and uncle fished offshore in Maine and in area 3 never seen a whale in any of our gear or anyone else's gear we have always complied with regulations based on false science all people want to do is put us all out of business
They are obviously not fishing Whales
What’s your point
So basically, they're whining that a law that prevents them from killing some animals is also making it harder for them to kill others animals for their own personal financial gain? 🤨 Where did I put that tiny violin? 🙄
I think they want universal treatment like regulating burger restaurants but not regulating hot dog venders. They should not just go making laws with out clear facts.
The answer is pretty simple.. make tech that does not have ropes 247 in the water table entirely. So, you get some servos, and a big waterproof wifi buoy, and slap it onto the traps. When the owner marks the trap wifi signal, the buoy floats up to his boat. Cheap, easy, simple. You're welcome, i mean how hard is that to come up with? Not hard at all to make in any garage with simple parts off the web for cheaper than a day of their fuel cost.
"THEY" aren't killing eight whales. That's a fact. Anyone who believes that is uninformed or just an inbred low IQ idiot.
NOAA has all the data on what fishery is causing the right whale entanglement deaths.
Hence the Supreme Court ruling in favor of Maine lobster fishermen recently.
Ocean floor vs Giant Ship Claw.
Who would Win? Nature or Artifacts fuels by Money.
Find out next time in "Everything just getting worse".
The last documented entanglement from Maine lobster trapping 2004. Zero documented entanglements since then.
Save the Whales !
Nah let then die :3
@@Adam-fu6sr don’t worry, these fishermen will sink like the whales. Once the government looses intrest in subsidizing a dying practice they’ll move on.
@@earthchansociety7769 the lobster fishery is not subsidized
F*** the whales save a lobsterman
@@earthchansociety7769 what do they subsidize? I'm a commercial fisherman I don't make a dime off the government
This very sad
the only reason those lines are there is so fisherman can hook it and drag the cages back up. so why not design a timing mechanism that floats the bouy with the line up instead of restricting fisherman. its a win win....
Sure is! However, multiple projects to do this is in place. But each device is about $3000-4000 per trap! And the gov’t won’t help fishermen pay for the change in gear. Not to mention, most of the devices in trials have been invested by fishermen who are trying to proactively help the situation.
@@jjbr1214 wow $3000-$4000. i reckon i can design one that cost around $500 range but i would need a contact with a local fisherman to get some dimensions and specifications. it would just be ridiculous to make em pay for $3000-$4000 per trap. it would take a decade to make returns
Sometimes this kind of stuff is not right for the folks that have to go 4 months w/o a check.
If there going to do this kind of stuff, NOT having a 4 month season, line not strong enough to hold the traps to get the trap to the top to get the lobster out of the trap, then the lobster dies in the trap bc they can't get out of the trap & the fishermen looses there trap & lobster. All this cost money to the fishermen. 4 months lost wages, traps @ the bottom of the sea.
The government needs to be compensate them for their loss if there going to pass laws like this.
Has a study be done on how many whales actually get caught in the lines of the traps? Did I miss that part of the video?
I'm sure someone will correct me & please do. I know what it's like to loose 4 months of a pay check. It sucks. And I'm sure these fishermen loose a lot of money if their having a good day of fishing.
Pretty easy solution.. make a trap with a wireless buoy. When the boat gets above the trap, the driver hits a sonar to activate the buoy. This way, the rope is at the bottom with the trap the entire time until the boat gets there to the location to harvest it. Win win for all. You're welcome.
Then what dead organisms would the lobsters eat?
How old are you? All that cost $$$ while traditional traps and ropes have worked perfectly fine for hundreds of years..
@@famousbowl9926 Enough to come up with a cheap and genius plan that would easily work with Ubiquiti technology dishes, and long range wifi with a few cheap rc model airplane servos off the internet entirely for like 3 benjamins, kid.
@@famousbowl9926 The ropes are not allowed in some areas, are you 15 years old and not paying attention, kid? lol wow
@@LeroyBrown Lobsters do not just eat dead whales.
Ocean lobster farming is looking like a viable option for lobster catchers
You still need to capture baby lobster though. Unless someone had found out a way to make them laying eggs artificially.
Farming isn't nearly as healthy for the fish or people consuming them.
And some huge corporation will dominate that industry and pay 18yr olds minimum wage to do it.
Takes at least 7 years for one lobster to grow to a harvestable size. Every 50000 eggs a lobster lays, only 2 survive. A 7 year old lobster lays about 8000 eggs. You do the math
@@jjbr1214 damn
How about we farm lobsters and the fishermen work that industry
how about going vegan
@@q9c9pilrandagio5 no
Can’t farm lobsters because they will eat each other it’s not like other fish aquaculture
Because migration is part of their life cycle
@@TheREALLibertyOrDeath Then move them
damn that sucks no wonder lobster rolls are 23.99
THATS MY TOWN
You been watchin Netflix Vice?
I’ve seen these whales while on Isle Madame in Arichat, Nova Scotia while fishing for Mackerel off the pier. Canada already has these stricter lobster fishing laws so our lobsters are bigger and more profitable. You shouldn’t be fishing lobsters during their mating season or you’re just depleting the source that feeds you...
Can Canada take Ted Cruz, Gavin McInnes, Canadian geese, Justin Bieber, and Vice media back. Because we're sick of all of them.
Just take them back, please.
This must be why they have had the time to post so many sea shanties to Tik Tok.
vice news pushes covid
Pot fishing is the safest most sustainable type of fishing around. And this woman is attacking it because of some stupid whales. Go out to western gulf Alaska and watch the most inteligent whales killer whales pick individual black cod off a long line being hauled from the bottom like there own personal buffet. Maybe this lady should be put on the menu
Amen brother! Pure propaganda!
They have no clue what their sayin those yuppies just got for rides wen it’s perfect weather Iv lobsterin 10 years my grandparents 40 years never seen an engagement how about we halp ppl first who r homeless an starving USA whales million on so called reasearch
have to always blame someone, huh ?
Yes lobstermwn can never blame themselves or nature, it’s always regulations that harm them
There are 3 million fishermen and only 7 fish left. So ....
7 fish!? Tf you get your numbers from?
edit- wow seeing all those traps makes me realize just how many of these things are in the water for whales to run into.. no wonder they are getting tangled. why do they use such small traps rather than those massive traps you see used for crabs on The Deadliest Catch?
Most of these crews are just 1-2 guys who own a 30 foot boat. They dont have the money or equipment to own a boat big enough to use traps that big
Those boats and gear r prohibitively expensive. Deadliest catch boats cost millions of dollars to operate every year. Also they do a specific amt of fishing permits in Alaska. Those permits alone r worth a lot of money
I’m a fisherman my self and I can tell you that when we pull traps up in federal waters i doesn’t affect anything
@@tristanshank721 word ! Same Nova Scotia Canada fisherman! We do many things to prevent whales getting caught ! Also mark all our rope !
The boat size can’t hold those massive pots for crab not lobster lol
Million other things to eat besides animals. But most people on this planet have no heart.
Why can’t these fishermen just leave dock a half hour earlier and go out to international waters? This ban only applies to federal waters close to shore
Not allowed to fish there and the lobsters don’t live there anyway. It always amazes me how people have answers to something they know absolutely nothing about. Suck up your propaganda pal
@@TheREALLibertyOrDeath umm lobsters do live in international waters, they been living out there for a long time
I used to lobster in Gloucester it’s rough and tough. I’m happy I got out but I love it and miss it
Sounds like you didn’t have what it takes
@@ethanshepard8981 🤣 I left because the captain is a drunk and picked alcohol over his boat. I still have mine. 😏
@@ethanshepard8981 I actually have the same pic as you bub. Literally same size bug. 15 pounds? We hauled 2k pounds a day easy. 1000 plus traps a day over 5000 wet and I have no idea how many dry. But yeah I don’t have what it takes. You right. That’s why I’m making $ now.
While i do agree that we should protect the whales. Just that there haven't even been 1 whale in that area to tangled up with lobster lines doesnt justify banning it.
Just use lines that snap or dont tangle easily. That's a start
These have been required for decades and are used by every lobstermen, at least in Maine.
The US fleet has 600# breakaways on our buoys and we are now using 1,700# weak Contrivances in our Buoy lines to break if it does come in contact with a whale. We also mark all our end lines in multiple locations to identify where it Could have come from. None have been found yet but we are still the targets.
@@nom_chompsky where are you from? What makes you such an expert on all of this? I’d like to hear about your vast experience using and testing this stuff.......please, tell me.
@@stevebudrow9373 This sounds like something people could get behind so we are able to identify how these whales are becoming entangled and come up with a targeted solution.
Even without the whale problems, is lobster trapping on that scale sustainable? I'm led to believe that the oceans will be more or less barren by 2050. Are lobsters an exception to that for some reason?
Lobstering is one of the most sustainable fisheries there is. With both regulation and trap inefficiency we have a healthy stock that’s here to stay.
@@stevebudrow9373 Well, that's good to hear. I do enjoy lobster.
To add on to what Steve is saying, the specific regulations that make lobstering in Maine sustainable include not only trap limits but limits on how many are awarded licenses to lobster. In some zones you need 2-3 people to retire before someone new can get a license for it. It is also about restrictions on what lobsters can be kept. All lobsters carrying eggs have to be tossed back but you also need to put a v notch in their tail that keeps anyone else from being able to keep that lobster for years to come. Lobsters under a certain size and over a certain size also cannot be kept giving them time to reach sexual maturity and protecting a healthy stock of older lobsters that make for good breeders. This is especially the case for large female lobsters as the number of eggs they produce at a large size is exponentially greater. Hauling traps on Sundays from June-August is also illegal and all traps need to be marked with your ID tags and be marked with you registered buoy color.
@@NY-rg3gy Thanks for the in depth reply! It's good to know that this isn't another orange roughy situation.
But you still want your lobster dinner right?
Personally, I’m allergic to seafood. So, no.
@@stuffwithjennifer well it's McDonald's for you then 😅 jk
While I applaud the intent, I doubt the effectiveness of focusing on a single species. Perhaps a 10 year moratorium on fishing worldwide would preserve the ocean ecosystem but without a worldwide moratorium on plastic, agricultural runoff and carbon emissions (responsible for ocean acidification) the oceans are doomed to die anyway.
The only solution is to return to hunter-gatherer and agro-forestry societies. Which will not happen until after the fall of modern civilization.
How about we take your job lady
The lobster season starts in May and goes until January anyways...
400 left? But they have an impact globally? Come on now
Why can’t someone design a fishing pot that doesn’t have an exposed line?
Have it auto deploy a buoy when full or when triggered remotely by the boat?
RIP AQUACULTURE.
The lobster fishery is already critically overharvested, sounds like prices are too low and too many people are trying to do this specific job. For maximum efficacy, this needs to be federal, with cooperation from Canada.
With no restrictions, whale population dies off, entire ocean ecosystem crumbles, then there are NO fish and NO lobster and you STILL don't have a job and the world basically dies. So yeah, I get that it sucks not being able to make a living off what you've always done, and the government does need to assist people in finding new work... but either way, you're not going to have lobster for long. At least one way will save the planet.
That is perhaps one of the most ignorant comments I’ve ever read. The US Fishing fleet is the most heavily regulated fleet in the world. Lobstering is one of the most sustainable fisheries there is. Telling men and women to ‘Go find another job’ is ludicrous. I’ve been fishing for 2/3 of my life. I’m heavily invested in the fishery and I have 3 families that depend on me to provide a living for them. I’m supposed to just walk away and let 12 people go hungry, let the bank come and take everything I’ve worked the last 26 years for? That’s crazy!!
Lobstermen & fishermen will tell you no but the answer is 100% yes. No one else is putting ropes in the North Atlantic for the whales to get stuck on. Lobstermen just love to complain, wait till you hear them talk about offshore wind turbines
Wind turbines don’t work, they self destruct and are abandoned over time. Human eyesores
Container ships kill most whales fact done story over
They will never stop u no y $$$$ stupid
To avoid harbor porpoise in fishing nets there have to be a pinger, like you hear on ww2 uboat films, these keep the whale away from nets.
I miss the old Vice!
What a worthless comment
@@pepesylvia848 is that why it got you to respond?
@@713hunsberger yeah
Not everyone likes annoying sounds, why have the horns so much?
I care more about a whales quality of life than a fisherman's catch of a delicacy that already costs way too much. I'll choose broccoli over seafood so long as I never have to see another whale choked up by a fisherman's net.
Educate yourself. Look into ship strikes. Especially before you make comments about someone else’s livelihood.
The last time I checked lobster pots don't catch whales.
More industry outsourced to China by increasing regulations in America.
"teacher teacher he's doing it so i'll do it too gnegnegnegne" how mature.
@@q9c9pilrandagio5 That is not at all what I am saying.
Government could innovate and allow GPS tagged traps, then the fishermen would be doing the research work for them.
Instead, government bans fishing outright. And China, can do as I said above and save the whales and fish lobster and as such, take control over the entire lobster market when we could have a healthy competing one here.
They pushed all Atlantic fisheries to Canada
Its ALL COMERCIAL FISHING
This kind of videos uncovers how human are sooooooo selfish!
All animals are selfish. Humans are the least so.
It's just disrespectful to the wild
Nope, I'm pretty sure humans are to blame in general for everything bad in the world
We should go back to treating lobster like the garbage tier food it is. Get the price down to about $2/lb or so and the problem solves itself.
10$ a lb right now!
U should go back to wen u weren’t born
humans, i blame the humans
Sad
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Who needs whales when we can all have fiat money.
Why can't they just let go of the whales when they collect them?
the whales will swim on, entangled
really dude?
You know when I go hunting for birds, I don't murder deer, elk, black bears, etc just to I can get some grouse. If the grouse population is low that year, I DON'T HUNT. Oh it's your livelihood? Well who chose that? You guys need to get into a therapy room with coal miners and talk about diversification.
No lobster lines have ever caused a fatality of a right whale. That's a fact. NOAA has all the data , but for some reason they won't share it with the public. The Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans(Our version of NOAA) has more transparency and has shared what fishery is responsible. Hint, it's no the lobster fishery.
It's not your fault your uninformed
I used to work on a sail boat that often sailed up to Maine. Even standing on the front of the boat keeping a look out for the lobster floats it's impossible not to run over the lines. There are thousands upon thousands of floats each with 10's if not 100's of meters of rope. If I can't avoid them in a fairly maneuverable boat, what chance do the wales have? As I understand it, each float would have only a few pots attached to it. It would seem to make far more sense to have closer to 50 pots per float and thus eliminate a large portion of the rope required. Or you know do the planet a favour and just stop fishing all together.
thx
can they add like... a noise generator thing to the lobster lines to deter the whales?
If it keeps happening then it's obviously the whale's fault.
Seems likes they can allow the fishing if they GPS tag each trap. Then if a trap is lost they can track it, and see if in fact regulating an industry into non-existence is worth it to save an already dying species.
Not enough money in lobstering to rig 800 traps that way
First is impressive but last is more impressive
First
This versus new sanguinous are getting a little boring LOL used to be so groundbreaking
Fishermen: We should be able to kill everything in the open 24/7/365.
Everyone else: Hey why is the ocean dead?
Fishermen: We need a bailout because we overfishing the ocean.
The odds of a whale hitting a line in the water is about the same as winning the lotto.
Yeah, if there's like like 900,000 lottos and they never expire.
With no restrictions the whole ocean ecosystem will fall apart losing species of overfishing
Lobstering, especially in Maine, is a sustainable fishery. It is also already heavily regulated.
Money will never let you save the world.
Money is the *only* thing that will let you save the world.
@@pepesylvia848 The cause is the cure. How Orewellian.
@@MrDavidBFoster The cause? Grow up. Every so often a new lifeform comes along that destroys the world.
Money is incidental to the cause.
@@pepesylvia848 _"Every so often"?_ The last mass-extinction was caused by a meteor. Intelligence hadn't been invented yet.
@@MrDavidBFoster stop being offensive to smallbrains who got conked out of existence.
Adaptive organisms were directly responsible for mass extinction of less adaptive dinosaurs after the meteor took the planet off easy mode.
If you go to any beach and a knighted state you’ll see fisherman‘s gear rope nuts all kinds of stuff from the fisherman
I'm with the fishermen on this one . . . the whales need to be protected, but banning fishing for 4 months of the year is just a horrible idea. How about these whale lovers invent a new way for fishermen to retrieve their net and petition the government to finance the research and replacement. Instead we are going to destroy an entire industry with nothing to replace it which will lead to drug over doses, domestic violence, and depopulation. These small towns will literally become the Detroit of the Northeast if the pro whale people get their way.
More whales are killed by big shipping boats than anything worry about the fish we eat not look at
Dolphins get caught all the time