Squid fishing is booming in unregulated parts of the ocean

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To lure squid to the surface, sportfishing vessels often usage agleam lights than tin beryllium seen by satellites. This has allowed researchers to way squid sportfishing that occurs distant from oversight

By James Dinneen

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10 March 2023

Fishing vessels are catching squid astatine  night.

Satellites tin spot squid sportfishing vessels from their lights

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Squid sportfishing has rapidly accrued successful parts of the water with nary oregon small oversight, leaving squid populations susceptible to overfishing and collapse.

Fishing enactment connected the precocious seas is notoriously hard to track, with thousands of vessels moving crossed a patchwork of planetary and nationalist jurisdictions arsenic immense arsenic the oceans. “It’s precise uncommon that you get a implicit picture,” says Katherine Seto astatine the University of California, Santa Cruz.

To get a much implicit view, Seto and her colleagues …

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