A Global Perspective: Commercial Fishery Interactions & Killer Whales
About this episode
This episode discusses the interactions between killer whales and commercial fisheries, highlighting the ecological and economic impacts.
Killer whales are very intelligent, social, and globally distributed apex predators that sometime interact with commercial fisheries. Although not always, these interactions can result in negative impacts to the whales and the fishing industries. Given this species’ ecological diversity, geographic variability, and frequent encounters with fisheries, a global, comprehensive review of commercial fishery interactions with killer whales was undertaken by University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate s...
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