Dolphins vs fishers: both are the losers in the Mediterranean seas off Morocco

On the Moroccan Mediterranean coast, hundreds of boats equipped with large nets, called purse seines, go out six days a week to fish for small pelagic fish (coastal or oceanic fish).

In the last two decades, seine fishing has become more difficult as bottlenose dolphins attack the catch and pierce the nets, which extend like a wall into the sea. These nets are expensive…

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