Gillnetting

• In gillnetting, a net is dropped to the bottom of the sea floor, and it stays there for a period of time until there is a big enough population of fish that the fisher can make a profit.

• The boat then pulls the net up and fish are collected

• Since the gill net has to be big enough for fish to swim in and stay there, it often results in sea animals like the hawksbill turtles and vaquitas to enter the net and get stuck there.

• Since hawksbill turtles and vaquitas need to go to the surface of the ocean to breathe, when they get caught in the gill nets, they end up suffocating

• This is one of the biggest causes of deaths for these to animals

• Gill nets are illegal in some states and heavily regulated in others, but if a national law is passed to stop gillnetting, lots of different animal species can be saved