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Published online 10 November 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news031103-17
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Fishing kills a third of turtles
Satellite-tracked tags hint at threatening mortality rate.
Nearly one in three sea turtles may be killed by fishing each year, suggests a new global study.
"At this rate of mortality, you can project that some populations will go extinct in a few decades," says Graeme Hays of the University of Wales, Swansea, UK.
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