California Fisherman Shoots Down Drone Monitoring Illegal Activities
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [LA Times] by Laura Tillman - December 27, 2017
Tensions between poachers and conservationists in the Gulf of California escalated over the weekend after a fisherman shot down a drone being used to monitor illegal activities.
The drone belonged to the U.S. conservation group Sea Shepherd, which has two ships in the northern part of the Sea of Cortez as part of an effort to save the critically endangered vaquita porpoise.
The vaquita have been inadvertently caught in nets that poachers use to ...
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