Sun-Herald: "Infant dolphin deaths still on rise"

[Xicano]

GULFPORT -- The number of dolphins dead this year in Mississippi and Alabama has reached 48. Of those, 39 are infants or stillborn, according to a NOAA Fisheries report today.

This week the small carcasses have washed ashore in Mississippi along the beaches of Long Beach, Pass Christian and East Ship and Sand islands and in Alabama at Orange Beach and Dauphin Island.

The number of dolphin deaths confirmed in the northern Gulf, from Apalachicola, Fla., to the Louisiana border with Texas, the coastal area effected by the BP oil spill, is 87, with 46 of them infant calves or stillborn.


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