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Environmental group threatens legal action over Bering Sea orca bycatch

Alaska's lone US House representative has also weighed in as pressure mounts over the 10 killer whales incidentally caught by trawl vessels this summer

By Kirsten Dobroth | Oct. 27, 2023 12:54 BST
Photograph courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
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An environmental group is threatening to file a lawsuit against the US president Joe Biden administration if it doesn't take action in just two months to better protect killer whales from getting caught up in the trawl nets of the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands groundfish fleet [...]

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