<figure class="image"><img class="img-fluid" src="https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/K7kdx6789418a03b29/post/r7BEt678944e934770/aTJqX.jpg" alt="Don Comber with one of scores of bir collected at White Rock Beach. Shon Sou 7 PT Grisly litter blamed on nets "J Scores of seabrids washed up on White Rock beaches in recent weeks, in the wake of the I'S. gillnet fishery BY Jans Rion SOUNDER CONTRIBUTOR Dead turds in toc hundreds washed vp on White Rock's beaches during the LS pullact simon fibers tha ye “Its the largest amber we've had since I've been hee, in aiac years Rock ssperinicndent of parks Mervyn Hart sad “Proc last yea, we FEN Rave had 2d bard ca the beach, s at 1 woud The sea low aumber of dead birds on the beaches swelled last year lo as aay ws 60 This year, that purser more presicent of Su scapeg. contracted by the city 10 collect and drsponc of dead wild fe, eat mated bis employees picked 3p mote xa 200 birds Pus year He sad a many Ike'y washed hack out 10 sc: T's » shame There's no shortage of bet all thse (mutres) dead Te just throwing sway bags of Comber sad Yo edn the height af the graly Barvest Suntisc Landscaping employees were nding 30 tc 40 birds each day far 3 week The buds were hard 10 spot al first because they were coiled ap. hidden senor deem wang up on beaches “They dada have thew wings splayed out” Comber 1:4 “They were lacked 0 balls an covered with seaweed Although local officials refuse 10 poral fingers, comarvationts Mame the dest of thousands of muses snd other arc ammals an US fishing prac Alorg, Bosndary Bay, seals sed var ducks incising grey and while mames - have washed up dung (be late summer The soncal 1S. gillet salmon frshery begins 12 mid Augast and Lats Arce werk TONTINOTD ON PACES ss GANEY"></figure><figure class="image"><img class="img-fluid" loading="lazy" src="https://contents.bebee.com/users/id/K7kdx6789418a03b29/post/r7BEt678944e934770/SsuWQ.jpg" alt="WV GILLNETS Invisible’ net could be cause Comber said dead murres started was h here September and 5000 after the clo 5. fishery Fisherman's Union off): cial John Sutcliffe explains US. fishermen use gillnets al that 1s transparent dian fishermen use gil 100, but theirs arc not “re both called gill res, bul it's the difference between a BB gun and a caron.” Sutcliffe said Ss shermen) use a ent mesh. With the monofilament mesh gill mals, Birds, fish, mammals Cansdisn fist: se the tac here US gillncts - eves though i means szensficing greater Sutcliffe would not meat oa the US, fishermen's EA 10 Use their het, saving his would be interfering US fishing practices."></figure>
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