WORLD IN BRIEF : JAPAN : Driftnet Fishing to Be Suspended Early
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Japan will suspend driftnet fishing in the South Pacific this fall, a year earlier than the date set by a U.N. resolution, the Fisheries Agency announced in Tokyo. Driftnets can sweep as much as 30 miles of ocean and have been called “walls of death” by environmentalists because the nets indiscriminately trap marine mammals such as dolphins as well as fish.
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