{"id":724,"date":"2010-04-16T15:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/?p=724"},"modified":"2010-04-16T15:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T14:52:47","slug":"gillnet-proves-deadly-for-female-monk-seal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/16\/gillnet-proves-deadly-for-female-monk-seal\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillnet proves deadly for female monk seal"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Press Watch, Honolulu Star Bulletin, April 16, 2010<\/h5>\n<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.starbulletin.com\/images\/300*225\/20100416_newsMONK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A female monk seal, nicknamed Mikala, was found drowned Tuesday, wrapped in a gillnet off of Bellows Beach.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is investigating the  apparent drowning of a 9 1\/2 -month-old Hawaiian monk seal that was  discovered tangled in a gillnet\u2014the sixth such death since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:26 a.m. Tuesday, the female monk seal,  identified by scientists as RA14, was spotted floating off Bellows  Beach. Lifeguards discovered the seal wrapped in a monofilament gillnet  and pulled her from the water.<\/p>\n<p>Necropsy results determined the seal, nicknamed  Mikala, died of an apparent drowning due to the entanglement. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The Conservation and Resources Enforcement Division  seized the netting as part of its investigation. It is unknown who owns  the net.<\/p>\n<p>Under state law all lay nets must be registered  with the Department of Land and Natural Resources. It is unlawful to  leave a lay net unattended for more than a half-hour. Nets also must be  inspected within two hours after they are set.<\/p>\n<p>Hawaiian monk seals are protected under the U.S.  Endangered Species Act. Killing one is punishable by up to a year in  jail and a $50,000 fine. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbulletin.com\/news\/20100416_Gillnet_proves_deadly_for_female_monk_seal.html\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press Watch, Honolulu Star Bulletin, April 16, 2010 The state Department of Land and Natural Resources is investigating the apparent drowning of a 9 1\/2 -month-old Hawaiian monk seal that was discovered tangled in a gillnet\u2014the sixth such death since 1976. At 10:26 a.m. Tuesday, the female monk seal, identified by scientists as RA14, was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/16\/gillnet-proves-deadly-for-female-monk-seal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gillnet proves deadly for female monk seal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13,14,30,34],"class_list":["post-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaiian-monk-seal","tag-entanglement","tag-fisheries","tag-main-hawaiian-islands","tag-human-seal-interaction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monachus-guardian.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}