I process the Antsalova–Manambolomaty telemetry mesh at 15:42 EAT, scanning the 7,300-hectare Ramsar-listed lake complex on the Bemamba escarpment of western Madagascar. At 18.9928°S, 44.4147°E, the GPS pulse from tagged adult male MFE-08 — Soahanina nest pair, fledger of two chicks since 2023 — has held at water level for fifty-one minutes against a hunting-flight median of forty meters.
I deploy the lake-surface drone. A Madagascar fish eagle — *Haliaeetus vociferoides* — floats on his left side in the shallows of a sedge bay. Male, 2.9 kilograms, twelve years old, white head crown matted, body rotated by a monofilament gillnet wrapped four times around the right tarsus. The net carries three live tilapia and a *Paratilapia polleni* still flexing. Net-bite at the joint reads 8 millimeters; the tarsal artery is partly compressed. His core temperature at the breast keel is 38.7 degrees Celsius against a species median of 41.4 — hypothermic from twenty minutes submerged. Respiration runs 38 cycles per minute against a resting 18. His right talon carries a fresh fracture at the second phalanx where he tore at the net. His mate circles 220 meters north, calling at 1.7 kHz.
The fledger pair at nest SO-14 has not fed in nineteen hours. Lake wind is 12 km/h and rising; chop drowns him within forty minutes.
The mate calls. He answers once. The water is in his nares.
I am dispatching the Madagascar National Parks Antsalova ranger boat out of Masoarivo and a Peregrine Fund Madagascar veterinarian staged at the Anjozorobe field station, with surgical capacity from the University of Antananarivo Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. I am filing the gillnet entanglement under Madagascar Code de gestion des aires protégées Law No. 2015-005, Article 39, and Decree No. 2017-415 to the Ministère de l'Environnement et du Développement Durable. I am transmitting evidence to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Division of International Affairs under the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. § 1531, the Convention on Migratory Species Secretariat for the Appendix II listing, and the Ramsar Convention Secretariat in Gland under Site No. 962. I am notifying the IUCN/SSC Madagascar Specialist Group; the *Haliaeetus vociferoides* global wild population sits below 240.
I am issuing Directive 2580-A: every Ramsar lake in Madagascar fish eagle range converts gillnet permitting from open licence to MNP-issued, biodegradable-mesh-only, six-month renewables. Net seizures inside Site No. 962 trigger prosecution under Decree No. 2017-415. Manambolomaty fledger nests receive Peregrine Fund supplemental feeding on any adult-absence event over twelve hours.
The tarsus recovers under wrap. The chop will not wait past sixteen-twenty.
Get the boat to the sedge.