{"article":{"id":261797,"heading":"Many Reasons Dolphins Are Dying","author":"1918","created":"2013-09-25 20:21:42","modified":"2013-09-27 13:16:59","last_modified":"Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:16:59","article":"

Illegal nuclear waste dumping, long lines fishing, knifing by Japanese and other fishermen

25 Sep 2013

Nuclear waste dumping, municipal sewer dumps,

long lines fishing, ship propellers, sonar,

and other causes of dolphin deaths

Dolphin mammals are killed

by illegally dumped nuclear

radiation.

In tuna fish and other

fishing nets they suffocate

They die from city sewer

dumps into the sea.

They are knifed in Japan

and secretly killed by fishermen

elsewhere.

They are killed by US Navy sonar.

They have been made into

portable bomb carriers by

the same Navy.

On plastic they choke.

Cruise and other ship propellers

are shredding their fins

Thousands of kinds of

oceandumped chemicals

are poisoning these dolphins

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US Navy use of dolphins militarily

http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2003\/03\/0328_030328_wardolphins_<\/a>

Japanese knifing of dolphins

http:\/\/www.guzer.com\/videos\/dolphin-slaughter.php<\/a>

http:\/\/www.nrdc.org\/media\/pressreleases\/051019.asp<\/a> suit of Navy over dolphin de3aths

http:\/\/earthjustice.org\/<\/a>

Military Abuse of Dolphins

http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Military_dolphin<\/a>

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