dolphin and fishery interactions
Biology environment

Dolphin series: fishery interactions

Fishing intensity keeps increasing throughout the world, which has negative impacts on nontarget species, including marine mammals. Thus bycatches have become a critical issue for marine mammal populations. Every year fishing industry removes about 80–90 million tons of fish and other marine organisms from the world’s oceans. Another 7–8 million tons of unwanted animal biomass …

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