Fish Nets Found to Kill Large Numbers of Birds

[Donna]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/13/us/study-finds-large-seabird-toll-from-fishing-nets.html?_r=0

400,000 a yr or more seabirds!    Nearly half of the seabirds killed by gill nets were in a section of ocean stretching from the northern tip of Africa to north of Greenland and Scandinavia. The bird catch was said to be especially high around Iceland, a prolific seabird habitat, where researchers estimated that 100,000 birds die every year.

[MAK]

Good grief!