{"id":57297,"date":"2018-09-03T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=57297"},"modified":"2018-09-03T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T10:29:16","slug":"california-all-set-to-say-good-bye-to-fishing-nets-blamed-for-killing-several-marine-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2018\/09\/03\/california-all-set-to-say-good-bye-to-fishing-nets-blamed-for-killing-several-marine-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"California all set to say good-bye to fishing nets blamed for killing several marine animals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drift gillnets are used by commercial fishers to capture fish like sharks and swordfish, but often a number of marine\u00a0species that are not meant to be caught get entangled in these &#8216;curtains of death&#8217; that\u00a0can stretch a mile long and suspend 100 feet underwater.<\/p>\n<p>Now the California State Assembly has unanimously approved a bill to phase out the use of this controversial fishing gear in the state by January 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly voted 78 to 0 on Senate Bill 1017, sponsored by state Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica). It passed 36 to 1 in the Senate in June. It now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown, who has until Sept. 30 to sign it into law.<\/p>\n<p>Should the bill become law, it would create a buy-back program that offers up to $110,000 to fishers to give up their nets.<\/p>\n<p>However, California fishers said the ban threatens their livelihood and the buyout amount is not enough for them to transition to another type of fishing.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/california-bans-fishing-nets-gillnets-2600792569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/california-bans-fishing-nets-gillnets-2600792569.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drift gillnets are used by commercial fishers to capture fish like sharks and swordfish, but often a number of marine\u00a0species that are not meant to be caught get entangled in these &#8216;curtains of death&#8217; that\u00a0can stretch a mile long and suspend 100 feet underwater. Now the California State Assembly has unanimously approved a bill to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}