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3000 porpoises are suffocated in Norwegian nets every year - now a new rule is being urgently introduced

(Translated from Norwegian:) It sends a sound only porpoises hear and scares them away from the fishing nets. The United States now demands that Norwegian fishermen use it, and Norway today urgently introduced the measure.

NRK (in Norwegian)

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