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generic pharmacy branches Around modern fishing vessels the same scavenging appetite often means that albatross seize the baits and are snagged and dragged under, to be retrieved only hours later when the fishermen recover their longlines. The euphemism applied to this inadvertent death is ‘by-catch’. What it means in reality is that each trawler crew, as it processes the fish, builds up an ancillary heap of drowned seabirds. For the fishermen they are nothing but an inconvenience. Each dead and worthless albatross caught on a hook means one less valuable fish for the hold. In a single fishery for bluefin tuna off the Australian continental shelf, Japanese trawlers were estimated to be losing A$7 million (£4.3 million) annually because of birds.
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