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Study: Commercial Fishing Endangers Israel’s Dolphins

Published by on February 8, 2010

(IsraelNN.com) Researchers at the University of Haifa’s Department of Maritime Civilizations have determined that extensive commercial fishing is endangering the dolphins of the Mediterranean Sea.

The study examined competition between the two main hunters of the Mediterranean, the Bottlenose Dolphin and commercial fishing nets dragged near the bottom of the sea, known as trawlers.

While trawlers typically hunt codfish, sole, and red mullet fish, the stomachs of deceased dolphins studied for the investigation contained mostly non-commercialized fish, causing initial hypotheses that commercial fishing did not have a severe impact on the Mediterranean’s dolphin population.

However,

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