Project Update: October 2009

We are having good progress with the pingers' effectiveness and that is very encouraging. We will soon have the pingers spaced out every 100 m instead of every 200 m. Spacing out every 100 m has shown to have a better effect in other fisheries.

Also we are now testing another pinger brand (Fumunda's), that seem better constructed and more resistant to that kind of in-water work.

Finally, we got a paper accepted to a very good journal on our past project with support of Rufford Small Grants Foundation. This is the project on dolphin bycatch that also was our first step before moving into the mitigation measures such as pingers used as deterrents for dolphins.