bycatch: Quick Facts

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Vaquita (Phocoena sinus)

A bigeye thresher shark (Alopias superciliosus) with its mouth open is hooked on a fishing longline, partially out of the water next to a boat in the ocean.

humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

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