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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.

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