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Fishing nets kill ‘high proportion’ of adult loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean

Source
Mongabay.com

Publication Date
2016-04-13

A new study found that about 11 percent of adult loggerhead turtles were dying early in the waters off Middle East and North Africa due to entanglement in fishing nets used by small-scale fisheries.

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http://news.mongabay.com/2016/04/fishing-nets-kill-high-proportion-adult-loggerhead-turtles-mediterranean/