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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."

2 of 39 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Do we need them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Christ.
    Replace manor with manner, furthur more with furthermore and nieve with naif.
    Thank you.
    Oh and www.dictionary.com is such a useful bastard.

  2. Re:Do we need them? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    naif? What's that?

    I love it when spelling/grammer nazis can't even follow their own advice.