What type of net has been particularly disruptive in the mistargeting of species?
a. Trawl nets
b. Drift nets
c. Purse seines
d. Gill nets
ANS: B
Drift nets are fine, vertically oriented nylon nets. They can be as much as 7 meters tall and 80 meters
in length. They were originally developed by the United Nations to help Asian nations to create a
profit on something they were already doing?subsistence fishing. Information can be found in the
section Biological Resources
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