US trawlers in the Bering Sea targeting flatfish have deployed an experimental type of gear this summer to avoid entanglements with killer whales, the Anchorage Daily News reports. The vessels employ underwater web fences to keep killer whales from getting entangled in their nets, which get pulled along the ocean bottom. [...]
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