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Great news for Pacific seabirds and marine mammals as Russia bans driftnet fishery


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Steller's Eider caught in a gillnet off Estonia. Photo: Markus Vetemaa This is great news for a region which BirdLife recently highlighted as killing an estimated 140,000 seabirds each year. However, bycatch in gillnet fisheries is a huge global problem that we are not shying away from. Read on to find out more about this problem and how we are solving it.-6NMf_OVTBo

 

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