James Risdon

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Gillnets killing seabirds on Pacific coast

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

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.

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