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