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Bycatch Mitigation for Mobula Rays in Purse-Seine Tuna Fisheries: Mobulid Sorting Grid

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Tuna fishers on purse-seine vessels and ISSF scientists are collaborating to test the sorting grid — a new method for releasing accidentally caught mobulids/mobula rays (giant manta rays, Chilean and giant devil ray) safely back into the ocean. Footage courtesy of ISSF/ATA.