Pingers on fishing nets found to save river dolphins in Indonesian Borneo

Mongabay
Oct 29, 2021, 6:18 am371 pts
The last 80 Irrawaddy dolphins that inhabit the Mahakam River in Indonesian Borneo lead precarious lives. Their forays to find fish are frequently thwarted, sometimes fatally so, by a series of near-invisible gillnets that hang passively in the water column to ensnare fish. More than two-thirds of recorded…

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