40kg dolphin found dead
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SUKKUR: A seven-foot-long dolphin died after getting entangled in an ‘illegal fishing net’ in the Dadu right bank canal of the River Indus on Tuesday evening, said a wildlife officer.
Sukkur Wildlife Deputy Conservator Taj Mohammad Shaikh told Dawn that the male dolphin weighed around 40 kilograms.
He said the dolphin died when it became entangled in an ‘illegal net’ of unidentified fisherman. He said it was shifted to the Indus Dolphin Centre, near Sukkur Barrage, for a post-mortem examination.
He said they were in the process of registering a case against the fishermen who had installed the illegal net in which the dolphin got caught and died.
Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2014
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Nov 26, 2014 01:06pm
Dolphin is very precious specie and an identity of Indus river. The dolphin need special care from the Government and it should constitute a special task force to preserve the animal for coming generations! Else it will be vanished not because of natural causes but rather due to ineptness of our generation!
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Nov 26, 2014 06:07pm
scratch the surface and you will find that the "unidentified fisherman" are connected to the local political guru of Sukkur.
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