{"id":15428,"date":"2017-06-23T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15428"},"modified":"2017-06-23T07:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T11:34:43","slug":"jail-willy-there-are-organized-killer-whale-mafias-making-a-living-from-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/jail-willy-there-are-organized-killer-whale-mafias-making-a-living-from-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Jail Willy: There Are Organized Killer Whale Mafias Making A Living From Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062317_1130_JailWillyTh1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to Wikipedia Orcs are &#8220;brutish, aggressive\u2026and generally malevolent species&#8221;. That&#8217;s not so different from orcas wrote Tristin Hopper:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Orcas, or Killer Whales, have learnt that instead of going through the effort of hunting, they can just follow fishing boats and steal their catch.<\/li>\n<li>Boats have tried attaching noisemakers to ward off the whales, but they got used to the noise and now actively associate it with free food.<\/li>\n<li>One study found that fishing boats are losing up to $500 a day to orca thieves.<\/li>\n<li>The mammals have complex social structures and appear to be teaching each other new and innovative ways to steal from fishing boats.<\/li>\n<li>The Bearing Sea, off the coast of Alaska, has been ceded to the orcas admits one fisherman.<\/li>\n<li>One alternative is pot fishing \u2013 where instead of lines, boats turn into giant crab traps. But this has a one-time cost of $600,000 and it&#8217;s possible a killer whale will figure out how to get around it.<\/li>\n<li>Happily, all this suggests the 1980s moratorium on commercial whaling is working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"http:\/\/nationalpost.com\/g00\/news\/world\/gangs-of-aggressive-killer-whales-are-shaking-down-alaska-fishing-boats-for-their-fish-report\/wcm\/4da9c8fa-1884-428d-84bd-03f972e34a0f\">National Post<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2017\/06\/orca-wars-escalate.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia Orcs are &#8220;brutish, aggressive\u2026and generally malevolent species&#8221;. That&#8217;s not so different from orcas wrote Tristin Hopper: Orcas, or Killer Whales, have learnt that instead of going through the effort of hunting, they can just follow fishing boats and steal their catch. Boats have tried attaching noisemakers to ward off the whales, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/062317_1130_JailWillyTh1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15432,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions\/15432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}