1. Polar bear | IFAW Web Site
2000d. Polar bear. U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. 2000. Marine mammal management: polar
bear (Ursus maritimus) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1994. Conservation plan for the polar
bear in Alaska. Marine Mammals Management. Anchorage,
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2. Hawaiian monk seal | IFAW Web Site
incidental capture in fishing gear, intentional
kills, a decrease in food availability for some sub-populations (e.g. French
Frigate Shoals), and ingestion of discarded fish from the kahala ( Seriola
dumerii ) fishery, which may
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3. Basking Shark | IFAW Web Site
sharks were killed; the fishery ceased when it became uneconomical. A basking shark fishery also existed off the coast of California for fishmeal and oil but was stopped when no longer economical. Small fisheries also existed in waters off
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4. Fin whale | IFAW Web Site
krill and small, schooling fish. Although they can be found in deep waters, they are more commonly concentrated in coastal and shelf waters. Fin whale movements are complex and their broad range may indicate that they do not migrate as other
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5. Humpback whale | IFAW Web Site
(krill and small schooling fish such as capelin, mackerel, sand lance, and herring), their throat grooves expand. When the mouth is closed the water is expelled, leaving the prey on the inside of the baleen plates. Humpbacks may feed alone or
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6. South African (Cape) Fur Seal | IFAW Web Site
(open ocean) schooling
fish such as maasbanker, pilchard, hake and Cape mackerel, as well as squid and
cuttlefish.The 1990 population estimate for the Cape fur seal population
was about two million
animals.
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7. Hawksbill sea turtle | IFAW Web Site
takes in hook-and-line fisheries and net fisheries are a concern, as is entanglement in, and the ingestion of, marine debris.Some sea turtles are injured or killed by boat propellers or in boat collisions. Poaching of eggs is a serious
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8. Bottlenose dolphin | IFAW Web Site
and recreational fisheries. They are also killed in shark nets and
may be taken in drive fisheries. Large directed kills have taken place in the
Black Sea by Russia and Turkey and local populations have been depleted.
Directed
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9. Common dolphin | IFAW Web Site
in substantial numbers in fisheries around the world. Turkish and Russian dolphin fisheries in the Black Sea took huge numbers of this species before the stock declined. Common dolphins are also taken in the tropical Pacific tuna fishery and
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10. Mediterranean Monk Seal | IFAW Web Site
by
deliberate killings (fishers still consider the species a pest and a competitor
for increasingly scarce resources); incidental capture in fishing gear;
decreased food availability; destruction of habitat; and
pollution.Because the
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