Save marine life! LED fishing nets effectively reduce the probability of false capture

It is often difficult to avoid catching fish that are not intended to catch fish, such as fish, fish and even turtles. According to statistics, about 40% of the world's marine life has been discarded or mistakenly caught, and this situation may harm the development of marine ecosystems, as well as to accelerate the extinction of rare species crisis.

Early Scotland fishermen in order to cope with the EU fisheries quota, forced to abandon the market value of fish. For a British designer Dan Watson designed a LED nets, fishing net has many luminous ring, even pulling nets, open ring will not become smaller, and the LED lighting design collocation can warn the fish, let them know that their trapped escape machine will increase.

LED lights on fishing net there are two kinds of power mode, a battery power, and the other is the power charging; charging ring internal power turbine, when can convert the wave into electricity by water erosion, so do not need to change the battery.

Specific LED wavelength can effectively reduce the probability of trapping turtles

In recent years, more and more countries fishermen understand the importance of special fishing nets, and improved. Brown Christopher fishermen from the United States has designed a "squid nets", according to the different habits of fish to distinguish the endangered species of fish, he designed an escape route in the net bottom, get used to the deep sea tour halibut can have a chance to escape.

In addition to fish, there are hundreds of thousands of sea turtles in the world because they can't see the bottom of the water and are often drowned by improper fishing nets. Marine and Atmospheric Research Institute (Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research) the research team found that the turtle can feel the specific LED light wavelength, the wavelength of the light if the LED is fixed on the net, can effectively reduce sea turtle bycatch probability. The fishing nets were also tested in Mexico, Peru and Indonesia, and found that the use of special fishing nets can effectively reduce the probability of being caught by about 6 turtles.

The research team also found that different wavelengths of light have different effects on a variety of fish, is currently studying UV for the hammerhead shark (hammerhead sharks) what is the effect of the routes. (Carina / LEDinside)

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