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Michael Fitzpatrick

Surge in number of dolphin deaths sparks call for halt to Atlantic fishing

Pelagis employees examine dolphins washed up on the French coast. Xavier LEOTY / AFP

Biologists and animal rights activists have called for a temporary halt to fishing off the French Atlantic coast as hundreds of fatally injured dolphins wash up on the nation's beaches.

Faced with this winter's unusually high number of injured dolphins, the League for the Protection of Birds (LPO) has called on French President;Emmanuel Macron to intervene.

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