Alarms known as pingers that are attached to fishing nets can annoy whales, dolphins and porpoises enough that they swim away to safety. |
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We have already purchased significant quantities of pingers which deter cetacean by-catch. |
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The pingers transmit signals year-round, allowing the scientists to collect data even after they have returned home. |
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Despite the bicoastal success stories, fishermen and government regulators must be cautious in how and where pingers are deployed. |
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Despite the questions that remain, Bowles and many cetacean experts endorse pingers because they clearly save animals' lives. |
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He is one of 90 California fishermen who must use pingers when deploying drift nets for swordfish and thresher shark. |
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There is a need for an independent study on tuna driftnetting, with observers on trial vessels, using net pingers. |
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In 2004, following an airliner crash in Sharm-El-Sheikh, the French Navy hired GPS equipment to relocate the black boxes' pingers, Hubert said. |
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Attaching pingers to the shark nets may help reduce dolphin catches. |
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That plan will see a ban on driftnets in some EU waters and the use of acoustic devices, or pingers, to repel dolphins and related species from driftnets. |
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Some people like fancy pingers with extra features, but I always use the default ping application. |
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Every time we replace the main page, we get flooded with pingers making sure our web site is still there. |
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