In recent years, the populations of the two large whale species of the Mediterranean Sea, the sperm whale and the fin whale, have declined alarmingly. Collisions with ships are the main cause of human-induced death for these whales, due to intense maritime traffic, in the north-western Mediterranean, where the Marine...
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