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Estimates of Marine Mammals Killed by Fishing Nets

Posted by michael on from the thanks-for-all-the-fishing-nets dept.

thomasmd writes "Yahoo has an article describing the results of a new study by American and Scottish researchers that looked at the number of deaths by drowning of cetaceans (fishlike sea mammals) caught in fishing nets. Their alarming estimate was that more than 1000 cetaceans die every day from net entanglement."

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  1. I thought it said crustaceans... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Their alarming estimate was that more than 1000 cetaceans die every day from net entanglement.

    I thought it said crustaceans...

    In other news, 12,240,200 fish die everyday from net entanglement.

    In soviet russia, the cetaceans entangle you!

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!