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An international team of researchers have developed a method to assess sustainable levels of human-caused wildlife mortality, which when applied to a trawl fishery shows that dolphin capture is not sustainable. The study, led by scientists at the University of Bristol and United Arab Emirates University was published today in Conservation Biology. Human activities like commercial fishing can result in the accidental death of non-targeted wildlife, threatening protected and endangered species. 

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