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 Dolphin fear in trawler catch

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you got to fish for the future i don't support these super trawlers in Australian waters,,,
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Dolphin fear in trawler catch

The Daily Telegraph | August 29, 2012 12.29pm
CONSERVATIONISTS fear dolphins will be crushed by the weight of a super trawler's catch along the Australian coast.
Greenpeace and the Australian Marine Conservation Society say they have identified serious flaws in how the Dutch-owned Margiris -- the world's second largest trawler -- will reduce its by-catch of whales, dolphins and sharks when it is allowed to fish Australian waters.
Greenpeace's super trawler expert Pavel Klinckhamers said: "Trawlers like the Margiris can trawl for seven hours and if a dolphin is caught it drowns or is crushed if no one notices it's in the net."
Greenpeace said Seafish Tasmania, which wants to catch 18,000 tonnes of baitfish off the coasts of NSW, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia, had studied the effectiveness of seal excluders on their trawlers and found seals died in every second trawl.

Greenpeace says this photo shows dolphins and a hammerhead shark being discarded by a supertrawler off the coast of Mauritania last decade. Picture: GREENPEACE

Greenpeace says this photo shows dolphins and a hammerhead shark being discarded by a supertrawler off the coast of Mauritania last decade. Picture: GREENPEACE
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