A slideshow to accompany NRDC’s report, "Net Loss: The Killing of Marine Mammals in Foreign Fisheries."

1. A slideshow to accompany
NRDC’s report, Net Loss:
The Killing of Marine
Mammals in Foreign Fisheries

2. Vaquita: at risk from shrimp
fisheries not complying with
Mexico’s regulations.
© pinay06 for Creative Commons
© Paul Olson for NOAA

3. Spinner dolphins: at risk from India
and Sri Lanka’s tuna industry.
© NOAA/NEFSC
© NOAA/NMFS

4. North Atlantic right whale: at risk
from Canada’s lobster and crabbing
practices.
© NOAA/NMFS
© NOAA/NMFS

5. Baltic and Black Sea harbor
porpoises: at risk from inadequate
regulatory measures.
© Erik Christensen for Creative Commons

6. J-Stock minke whale: at risk from a range of
Japanese and South Korean fishing practices.
© NOAA/NMFS

7. False killer whale: at risk from Pacific
Ocean tuna, swordfish and marlin
fishing practices.
© NOAA/NEFSC
© Robin W. Baird/Cascadia Research

8. Mediterranean sperm whale: at
risk from Italy & Turkey’s lack of
enforcement.
© NOAA/NEFSC
© Tim Cole for NOAA/NMFS

9. New Zealand sea lion:
at risk from New
Zealand’s squid
industry.
©NOAA
© Karora for Creative Commons

10. Longlines: baited hooks on lines
varying in length from 15 to 100
kilometers set with floating buoys or
sunk with weights depending on the
targeted species. Sea lions, fur seals,
toothed whales, and other marine
mammals can get caught on the
hooks or tangled in the lines.

11. Gillnets: mesh nets that can be set on the sea floor or floated in
the water column depending on the targeted species. Marine
mammals that dive for food around gillnets tend to become
entangled and drown when they are unable to surface for air.

12. Trawls: funnel-shaped nets that are dragged behind boats at
different depths, depending on target species. Marine mammals
are attracted to trawls, which they become entangled in, because
they often target the species that mammals prey upon.

13. Purse seines: nets that hang
vertically in the water column
using weights at the bottom
and buoys at the top. They can
enclose marine mammals in
the nets, along with fish.

14. Bottom-set traps: (commonly called “pots”) crustacean traps with ropes
that connect them to surface buoys and to one another. Large whales are
particularly prone to getting entangled in the ropes, which wrap around
their bodies, making it difficult for them to move or feed.

15. A California sea lion in the
Los Angeles Harbor with a
gillnet filament cutting
into its neck.
© Kanna Jones/Marine PhotoBank

16. Dolphins in the Pacific Ocean
captured in a tuna fishery’s
purse-seine net.
© NOAA/SWFSC

17. NRDC has some tips for
consumers seeking to make
whale-safe purchases when
buying wild-caught fish and
seafood. Hint: whenever
possible, buy American!