Longliners on notice over false killer whales

By Gary T. Kubota

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 07, 2013

~~<p>Hawaii’s longline fishing industry could lose the right to fish for tuna in a large swath of ocean south of the islands under new federal rules limiting the number of accidental catches that kill or seriously injure false killer whales.</p>
<p>The industry would be banned from tuna fishing in the southern exclusion zone for the rest of 2013 if there is a second incident this year in which a longline boat causes injuries likely to be fatal to a false killer whale in federal waters around Hawaii.</p>
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Hawaii’s longline fishing industry could lose the right to fish for tuna in a large swath of ocean south of the islands under new federal rules limiting the number of accidental catches that kill or seriously injure false killer whales.

The industry would be banned from tuna fishing in the southern exclusion zone for the rest of 2013 if there is a second incident this year in which a longline boat causes injuries likely to be fatal to a false killer whale in federal waters around Hawaii. Login for more...