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a whale's tale caught in fishing gear
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Whale Rescue

When a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale becomes entangled in...
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 10:50
An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast of Bahia, Brazil days after a storm.
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Turtles Caught in Abandoned Net

An abandoned fishing net carrying 17 dead sea turtles was discovered off the coast...
Lost nets become entangled on a coral reef in the NW Hawaiian Islands, doing damage for decades. Wave action on the net breaks pieces of coral off until the net breaks, when it is free to catch on new reefs and do more damage.
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Lost Nets Hurt Coral Reefs

The impacts of derelict fishing gear on the Northwest Hawaiian Islands coral reef...
About a 300 foot long gill net found abandoned on a shallow reef in the surf zone on Oahu, Hawaii. The net had trapped parrotfish, wrasses, goatfish, surgeonfish, coral crabs, spiny lobsters, slipper lobsters and other fish that had decayed beyond identifi
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Discarded Gillnet Traps Fish

This roughly 300 foot long gill net was found abandoned on a shallow reef in the...
A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded net. Discarded nets continue to fish long after they have been lost, devastating the local fish populations and choking the life out of the reef on which it becomes entangled
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Trevally Dying in Ghost Net, Oman

A Yellow spotted trevally struggles to free itself from a fisherman's discarded...
A wildlife biologist surveys oiled algae
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Five Things The Gulf Oil Spill Has Taught Us About the Ocean

The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill is considered the largest...
April 2015

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