Killer Whales Are Hunting Boats and Stealing Their Fish (Video)
(N.Morgan) Pods of killer whales are pursuing the fishing boats of Alaska and stealing the fishermen’s halibut catches, leaving the crew with no fish and out thousands of gallons of fuel attempting to escape from the fish thieves.
This isn’t a new development for killer whales or orcas, the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family, as they have learned to recognize the fishing boats and take chase to steal the catches.
An article from the Journal of Marine Science traces the habit back to at least the 1960s and reveals there were complaints of the same stalking and stealing reported by Japanese fishermen.
However, recently the problem seems to be accelerating in frequency, and promises to only get worse.
The killer whales are shadowing boats all around Alaska, with the majority of the pack favoring a strip of water between Russia and Alaska, known as the Bering Sea.
Fisherman Robert Hanson complained about how he lost 12,000 pounds of halibut to killer whales, and 4,000 gallons of fuel getting away.
(Based on one 2014 study which found that such thieves could cost boats up to $500 a day, the recent examples seem to be more serious.)
Mr. Hanson described how a pod tracked him for 30 miles and then stayed in the area with him for 18 hours.
Another fisherman explained that sometimes the killer whales will take all of the catch — as much as 30,000 pounds in a day — and leave only the halibut “lips” still attached.
As a result of these recurring thefts, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council is now planning to research the extent of this problem.
It’s not clear whether there’s one perfect solution.
In the past, others have tried everything from buying decoys to blasting heavy metal, all to no avail — though some think that using steel traps to protect the caught fish might be better than traditional fishing line.
At any rate, something probably needs to change.
“It’s gotten completely out of control,” Hanson said.
The video below shows killer whales stealing fish in 1000 feet of water, this time in far north New Zealand waters. They know to grab the tails of the fish caught on the lines and it’s then a tug of war, which most times they win!
This video clearly shows this phenomenon is not only happening exclusively in Alaska.
References:
https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15840336/killer-whale-depredation-fishing-thievery-halibut
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088906
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Good.
They have the gall to call the whales thieves eh?
Delicious… Mother nature (killer whales) pulling an Al Gore on the world. Except intelligent humans are not buying into global warming and carbon taxes…highway robbery!
Socialism sucks. Eat more bacon.
Socialism does suck, but so does the retrovirus in swine meat that causes heart problems.
What would you do if somebody came along and tried to steal your food?
years ago fishing off the coast of calif the seals would take our catch or they would beg–we had one jump in our boat and just hang out like a dog–we would not get to close but she layed down and went to sleep==like the seals that hang out at the docks–used to being around people but dont try to pet them!
Hello Angle#3,
Charlie here. There was another video yesterday, of a HUGE seal hanging on to a boat hoping for a catch. But in this video did you you see how NUMBSKULL the adults were? Standing just a few feet away was a young child (girl) watching the whole thing and nothing standing between her and the HUGE seal!!! Did I mention the seal was HUGE???
All that HUGE seal had to to was leap in and snatch the girl and there is no way those guys are going to stop a 800lb seal with what looks like a fishing boat going at least 10 doughknots, er I mean knots. And heaven forbid if he snatched the girl into the water.
Surely, the adults saw the other viral video a few weeks ago of a normal size seal snatching a young girl off the pier and if it did not let go, would have surely DROWNED her, but thanks to her grandfather startling the seal by jumping in immediately, he let go.
But could this have anything to do with Fukushima? Destroying fish populations all along the Pacific rim? The animals look well-fed.
Signed,
Charlie (this is why I conceal and carry doughnuts)
Really? Whales are stealing from the fishermen? What about the reverse? Fishermen are stealing from the whales would be way more exact… and you wonder why they are taking back their food?
Come on, wake up people and stop… you are emptying the oceans, your are taking food out of their mouth and you expect them to just say… so be it? Really? Seems that htose whales are less idiot than humans.
And they have the gall to say that whales are thieves?
Wake up!!!!!!
It’s not the whales who are stealing the fish.
The whales are protecting their food. They need it.
racist ^%&*&er