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per year Animal Humans killed per year Animal Humans killed per year 1 Mosquitoes: 1,000,000 [a] Mosquitoes 750,000 Mosquitoes 725,000 2 Humans 475,000 Humans (homicide) 437,000 Snakes 50,000 3 Snakes: 50,000 Snakes 100,000 Dogs 25,000 4 Dogs: 25,000 [b] Dogs 35,000 Tsetse flies 10,000 5 Tsetse flies: 10,000 [c] Freshwater snails >20,000 Crocodiles
He is best known for his work documenting the unsustainable mortality of hundreds of thousands of dolphins per year in the tuna purse-seine fishery of the eastern tropical Pacific. [2] This work became a primary motivation for the U.S. Marine Mammal Protection Act (1972).
About 50 to 60 marine mammals, 80% of which are bottlenose dolphins, wash up on South Carolina beaches each year. About 98% of those stranded dolphins are found dead, Rust said.
International recognition of the problem of cetacean bycatch in tuna fishing led to the Agreement on the International Dolphin Conservation Program in 1999 and overall there has been a dramatic reduction in death rates. [6] In particular, dolphin bycatch in tuna fishing in the East Tropical Pacific has dropped from 500,000 per year in 1970 to ...
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The Commission set mortality limits on the international fleet. In 2005, only 373 spotted dolphin deaths were observed. [22] Dolphin populations are able to grow at 4% per year, [23] but the pantropical spotted dolphin populations did not improve or worsen between 1979 and 2000. [24]
Turk, 15; Gus, 14; and Nate, 20; died at Gulf World Marine Park, leading experts to question conditions and dolphin safety at the Florida attraction.
With the onset of the Dolphin Safe label program, started in the US in 1990 but soon spreading to foreign tuna operations, the deaths of dolphins has decreased considerably, with official counts, based on observer coverage, of around 1,000 dolphins per year. [12]