Gillnets

WHQR | By Andy Wood

Published November 2, 2009 at 12:28 PM EST

"The sad truth about gillnets is they catch and kill animals indiscriminately, including undersized and non-target fishes, along with sea turtles, waterbirds and marine mammals."

By Andy Wood

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Wilmington, NC – I was recently visiting Cedar Key, a coastal community on the Gulf Coast of Florida where I saw firsthand evidence of how well a community can adapt to change by escaping the economic trap of "business as usual."

Andy Wood is education director for Audubon North Carolina and author of "Backyard Carolina," a collection of his WHQR commentaries.

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Andy Wood

Andy Wood, a WHQR commentator since February 1987, is an ecologist and conservation educator with an affinity for ecosystem habitats in and around southeastern North Carolina, and the plants, wildlife, and people they support. A collection of Andy’s commentaries is collected into his first book, Backyard Carolina: Two Decades of Public Radio Commentary.

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