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86 percent of dolphins and whales threatened by fishing nets

Posted on February 07, 2010

A new report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) finds that almost 9 out of 10 toothed whales including dolphins and porpoises are threatened by entanglement and subsequent drowning from large-scale fishing operations equipment, such as gillnets, traps, longlines, and trawls. These operations threaten the highest percentage (86 percent) of the world's toothed whales....

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