{"id":13351,"date":"2013-03-16T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=13351"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T00:41:09","slug":"promised-update-on-mergansers-entangled-in-fishing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/16\/promised-update-on-mergansers-entangled-in-fishing-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Promised Update On Mergansers Entangled In Fishing Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may remember that on\u00a0February 17th I posted about the problem of birds getting caught in discarded fishing line at Willow Pond, one of our urban fisheries here in Murray, Utah.\u00a0 I had photographed some Common Mergansers that had fishing line entangled on their\u00a0bodies and fish hooks stuck in their bills.<\/p>\n

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This\u00a0merganser had lost a foot to fishing line.\u00a0 Another\u00a0had a fish-hook stuck in its bill and other ducks had line wrapped around their legs and wings.<\/p>\n

Here’s a\u00a0link to that original post: http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/17\/one-footed-merganser-in-a-hurry\/#comment-21517<\/a><\/p>\n

In comments, many of you were as disturbed as I was\u00a0about the carelessness of anglers and the resulting suffering of birds and some suggested a variety of methods to help address the issue.\u00a0 I chose to contact Tom Wharton, a long-time and highly respected columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, to see if he was interested in doing a story on the situation at Willow Pond.\u00a0\u00a0 When I sent him a link to the merganser post he responded almost immediately and asked if I would meet him at the pond and give him some background.<\/p>\n

So a couple of days later Mia and I met him at the pond and spent most of an hour with him reviewing the situation.\u00a0 He was enthusiastic about writing a column on the subject and trying to help birds.<\/p>\n

That column was published three days ago but I’ve been on a camping\/photo trip and couldn’t post about it until now.\u00a0 But since many of you had asked me to update any developments on the situation (sadly, attempts to rescue these two mergansers apparently failed)\u00a0I figured a little late was better than never…<\/p>\n

Below I’ve provided a link to the column in the Tribune.\u00a0 Tom, Mia and I\u00a0hope that this kind of publicity\u00a0will help\u00a0remind folks who use our urban (and not so urban) fisheries to be a little (lot…) more careful about discarded trash in general and fishing line and hooks in particular.\u00a0\u00a0 Our birds are\u00a0paying a terrible price for the\u00a0carelessness of many anglers.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/entertainment2\/55975514-223\/story.csp<\/a><\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of you may remember that on\u00a0February 17th I posted about the problem of birds getting caught in discarded fishing line at Willow Pond, one of our urban fisheries here in Murray, Utah.\u00a0 I had photographed some Common Mergansers that had fishing line entangled on their\u00a0bodies and fish hooks stuck in their bills.   This\u00a0merganser had lost a foot to fishing line.\u00a0 Another\u00a0had a fish-hook stuck in its bill and other ducks had line wrapped around their legs and wings. Here’s a\u00a0link to that original post: http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/17\/one-footed-merganser-in-a-hurry\/#comment-21517 In comments, many of you were as disturbed as I was\u00a0about the carelessness of anglers and the resulting suffering of birds and some suggested a variety of methods to help address the issue.\u00a0 I chose to contact Tom Wharton, a long-time and highly respected columnist for the Salt Lake Tribune, to see if he was interested in doing a story on the situation at Willow Pond.\u00a0\u00a0 When I sent him a link to the merganser post he responded almost immediately and asked if I would meet him at the pond and give him some background. So a couple of days later Mia and I met him at the pond and spent most of an hour with him reviewing the situation.\u00a0 He was enthusiastic about writing a column on the subject and trying to help birds. That column was published three days ago but I’ve been on a camping\/photo trip and couldn’t post about it until now.\u00a0 But since many of you had asked me to update any developments…<\/p>\n

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