{"id":3239,"date":"2016-11-19T01:40:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T06:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2016-11-19T01:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T06:40:39","slug":"swans-frequently-getting-tangled-in-fishing-line-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2016\/11\/swans-frequently-getting-tangled-in-fishing-line-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Swans Frequently Getting Tangled in Fishing Line, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A swan in Point Pleasant entangled in fishing line with a lure attached. (Photo: Point Pleasant Police)<\/p><\/div>\n

Swans and geese are finding themselves entangled in fishing line \u2013 sometimes with hooks attached \u2013 on an increasing basis, leading one local police department to urge anglers to dispose of line safely.<\/p>\n

The Point Pleasant Borough police department said this week that officers have\u00a0responded to several complaints of swans entangled in fishing line with lures attached. The complaints have been in the south area of the Point Pleasant Canal as well as the lagoons in Bay Head Shores area.<\/p>\n

\u201cA serious danger, facing waterfowl and wading birds, is monofilament fishing line entanglement,\u201d the department said in a statement. \u201cCarelessly discarded line, left behind by anglers, has the potential to cause serious injuries and death to its victims.\u201d<\/p>\n

With early intervention, entangled birds can be helped before serious damage occurs, police said. They are urging local residents to report sightings of entangled birds to the proper authorities for assistance in capturing them. Residents\u00a0can also save many avian lives by collecting and properly disposing of any fishing line littering the\u00a0shores.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPlease educate your fishermen friends, especially young children just learning the sport, to the dangers of monofilament line litter and the consequences to our wildlife,\u201d the statement said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many water birds also suffer from hook injuries when in proximity to fishermen, according to officials. It is a common misconception that hooks can be left in birds to disintegrate, as\u00a0they are sometimes left in fish. Once hooked, fishermen often cut their lines and free the\u00a0birds leaving the hooks embedded. These birds will need intervention and the hooks removed, experts say. They are usually carrying yards of line attached to the hooks which often gets entangled in branches or shrubbery and the bird faces a certain death.<\/p>\n

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Swans and geese are finding themselves entangled in fishing line \u2013 sometimes with hooks attached \u2013 on an increasing basis, leading one local police department to urge anglers to dispose of line safely. The Point Pleasant Borough police department said this week that officers have\u00a0responded to several complaints of swans entangled in fishing line with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boating-fishing","category-featured"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/15123126_387965378201906_6315055252231341728_o.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-Qf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}