Streamers could save birds from hooks
By Susan Milius
Fluttering streamers could save seabirds from fatal encounters with many longline
fishing boats, according to a big study.
The streamers could also save part of the U.S. fishing fleet from the financial
consequences of accidentally killing endangered species, says Ed Melvin of the
federally funded Washington Sea Grant Program in Seattle. Short-tailed albatrosses
are so rare that if the entire fishing fleet in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of