: Why the ban on fishing of seahorses in Indian waters has not been effective #IndiaNEWS For the past two decades, the catch and trade of seahorses have been banned in India. However, a new study reveals

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Why the ban on fishing of seahorses in Indian waters has not been effective #IndiaNEWS
For the past two decades, the catch and trade of seahorses have been banned in India. However, a new study reveals that 1.3 crore seahorses are estimated to have been caught in bycatch annually between 2015 and 2017. Most were caught by nonselective fishing gears operating at the bottom of sea and close to the shore in southern India. A similar study estimated 1.68 crore seahorses were caught prior to the ban.The findings suggest that the ban has not been effective in controlling seahorse extraction and add to growing concerns on the use of bans in the conservation of species accidentally captured in commercial fishing nets and hooks, which are referred to as “incidental catch�? or “bycatch�?.Study author Tanvi Vaidyanathan says that “while it appears that the ban has been successful in limiting the direct extraction of seahorses through diving, any alleviation in such pressures appears to have been offset by the increased intensity of non-selective fishing such as trawling in recent yearp�˒[��K�XZܜ��ٙHX�Y[���Y[HH[��[�Xx�&��[Y�H��X�[ۈX�NM̈�[��[��Z�^�X�[ۈ[��YK�H����[��YX�H�۝�[�[ۈۈ[���][ۘ[�YH[�[�[�ٙY�X�Y�و�[�][�H[��ܘH�Y[�XZܜ�H�X�Y�[�[�^RK����XY[ܙH

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