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Old 11-19-2008, 07:57 AM   #2
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Everyone knows there has always been a suspicion that River Herring are being caught up in the Atlantic (Sea Herring) Midwater Trawl Fleet. Recently, Matt Cieri, a scientist from the Maine Department of Marine Resources presented a study suggesting that at-sea, small-mesh fisheries could be taking as many as 2.5 million pounds of river herring annually!
So there is someone in science thinking this. And gee, that could explain the phantom offshore mortality rates...

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