Fishing Incidental Take (was Re: growing rice in the desert)

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From: Clay Phipps
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 1990 06:26

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In message <410@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> on 22 Mar 90 17:15:44 GMT,
ries@venice.sedd.trw.com (Marc Ries) wrote:
>
>The problem is that the ocean is getting "stip mined" [...]
>We are talking, per year, something on the order of 1 million birds, 
>1/2 million seals, and 1/4 million dolphins dying 
>because of ocean fishing practices.

These are large numbers.  
Can you supply references to substantiate them ?
In particular, "something on the order of...1/2 million seals" 
is far too high to accept just because someone happened to write it.
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From: phipps@garth.UUCP (Clay Phipps)
Newsgroups: ca.environment,sci.environment
Subject: Fishing Incidental Take (was Re: growing rice in the desert)
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Date: 21 Apr 90 06:26:03 GMT
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