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This whale is entangled in fishing gear. The inset shows how special fishing lines allow whales to escape such accidental entrapments.
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Fishing Gear Solutions

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Phoenix’s entanglement badly injured her right lip, leaving a distinctive scar from that ordeal.
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Beware of Fishing Gear

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A white scar on Phoenix’s lip (at right) was caused by her entanglement with a fishing line.
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Lip Scar Caused By Fishing Gear

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
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Collision Course

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Two Southern Resident killer whales.
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When Killer Whales Hunt the King of Salmon

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Smithsonian scientists race the tide the excavate an ancient whale fossil entombed in rock
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Fossil Whale Found, Excavated, Jacketed, and Returned to STRI!

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Giant drift nets, placed around the world’s oceans to catch commercial fish species, kill non-commercial animals just as efficiently, often taking far more of the latter for every useable species ensnared.
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Sea Lion Drowned in Drift Net

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A team works to disentangle a right whale.
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Entangled Right Whale

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an elephant seal with a tracker
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Citizens of the High Seas

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Spinner dolphins in a small inlet off the Kona coast, Hawaii.
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Spinner Dolphins

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Two nurse sharks hover over a baited cage
Lesson Plan

The Best Hope for Northern Right Whales

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A vaquita swim in the ocean.
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A History Entwined: Vaquita, Totoaba, Fishermen

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