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Dead dolphin sighted in Pembroke
By Maltamedia news
Jun 10, 2007 - 7:09:51 PM

A Bottlenose dead dolphin was washed ashore opposite the Reverse Osmosis in Pembroke on Sunday evening.  The cause of the death is unknown.

People who saw the dead dolphin reported the sighting to the Police.  Local police informed the Nature Trust’s Marine Rescue Team who went on the site.

A Nature Trust spokesman said that an autopsy on the dolphin's carcass will shed more light on the causes of the dolphin's death.

The Bottlenose dolphin is a common species in the Mediterranean sea, although it is dwindling in numbers during the past years. The common dolphin is one of the most prominent by-catches of both the world-wide pelagic purse-seine and drift net fisheries. This is due in part to its abundance and possibly because of a shared feeding ecology with the targets of those fisheries, large migratory pelagic fish for example tunas.