Description
Seal Of Disapproval (2021)
By Elizabeth Solich, oil on canvas, recycled materials.
Width: 45.70 cm Heigh: 35.6 cm
While shark nets are designed to allow smaller fish through, any number of marine animals, including seals, dolphins, dugongs, and turtles can become twisted up, injured and can even drown in nets. In 2013, a humpback whale calf died after becoming tangled in a shark net off a Sydney beach. The researchers found that shark nets were not effective for keeping people safe. At the same time, they had a significant negative impact on marine life, both on the targeted species and on other species as well, including threatened and protected species. Did you also know that seals consciously reduce blood flow to their blubber before diving 
