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Tag: conservation

Study Finds Large Seabird Toll From Fishing Nets – NYTimes.com

By debrobertson Posted on June 12, 2013 Posted in In the News Tagged with bycatch, conservation, fishing

This article from the New York Times summarizes a study reporting at least 400,000 seabirds are snared and drowned by gillneting activities.  The original article appeared in Biological Conservation. Study Finds Large Seabird Toll From Fishing Nets – NYTimes.com.

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