Bycatch threatens marine mammals, but new protections hold promise for Mexican vaquita

Monday, December 14, 2015 - 10:20 in Biology & Nature

Gillnetting around the world is ensnaring hundreds of thousands of small cetaceans every year, threatening several species of dolphins and porpoises with extinction, according to research presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's 21st biennial conference in San Francisco this week.

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