Pound nets (IMAGE)

Aarhus University

Pound nets

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The researchers don't go about catching the harbor porpoises themselves. Whenever a fisherman discovers a porpoise caught in his net, he phones the researchers. When that happens Laia Rojano Doñate immediately hops on a boat with a tracking device in her backpack. 

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Aarhus University

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