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Marine Conservation News-Vol. 9, No. 1, Spring 1997. Center for Marine Conservation. 23 pp.

Marine Conservation News is published by the Center for Marine Conservation, committed to protecting ocean environments and conserving the global abundance and diversity of marine life through science-based advocacy, research, and public education, and the promotion of informed citizen participation to reverse the degradation of our oceans. This volume is particularly important to the Gulf of Maine program for its article ‘Saving Whales and Dolphins, One Fishery at a Time’. This article sites the Gulf of Maine Harbor Porpoise Take Reduction Team as one of its conservation teams fighting in the Gulf for a marine mammal species. The article also sites the Gulf of Maine sink gillnet fishery as one fishery contributing to mortality of right whales exceeding the biological level that would allow the species to grow.

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