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| | Marine Mammals, ANIMAL PEOPLE March 1997 |
 | | OTTAWACanadian fisheries minister Fred Mifflin on Christmas Eve raised the Atlantic Canadian harp sealing quota to 275,000, up from 250,000 last spring, when 247,000 carcasses were retrieved and thousands more washed up on Newfoundland beaches. |
 | | Mifflin left the quota for adult hooded seals at 8,000, as in 1996, with juveniles, or bluebacks, still off limitsbut last year sealers actually killed as many as 22,800 bluebacks. |
 | | Besides the five species gaining specific protections, hammerhead, sandbar, bull, dusky, lemon, and nurse sharks are also down, National Coalition for Marine Conservation head Ken Hinman recently told Pat Leisner of Associated Press. |
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