Factoid/2003/09/26
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Whale Decimation in North Pacific Maybe Led to Major Population Declines for Seals, Sea Lions, and Otters
- "...five years of scientific work led to publication of a study scheduled for release today that sets forth a radical and potentially important new idea: An ecological chain reaction dating to industrial-scale hunting of whales in the North Pacific a half-century ago has driven the widespread decline of Alaskan seals, sea lions and otters that have puzzled scientists for decades." - excerpt from http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/141208_whales25.html
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