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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. More information by MobyDisk · · Score: 3, Informative

    This article says similar things with more detailed information.
    Our Dying Seas?"

    Lots of these surveys draw conclusions about extinction and talk about percentages, but I have never seen an actual estimate of the cetacean population on the Earth. Do we have ANY FRIGGIN CLUE how many there are?