Tori leash

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A tori line ( Japanese 鳥 tori , German 'bird' ) is a line that is put into the water parallel to the long line during professional deep sea fishing to deter sea ​​birds .

While the fishing line with hundreds to thousands of baits is lowered into the water, the tori line with fluttering ribbons is designed to keep birds away from the hooked baits. This prevents the bycatch of these birds and makes an important contribution to bird protection . Since the tori lines are only used by a few deep-sea fishermen, around 300,000 seabirds, including a third of them albatrosses , still fall victim to deep-sea fishing every year . ACAP , an agreement for the protection of albatrosses and other petrels, obliges the member states to enforce the use of tori lines.