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NZ fishing cuts whale numbers in Antarctica

Industrial-scale fishing by New Zealand is throwing Antarctica”s delicate ecosystem off balance with disastrous consequences, an expert warns.

It is creating an explosion in penguin populations while cutting the number of killer whales.

US penguin researcher David Ainley, in California, said pushing an ecosystem so far out of kilter would have long-term impacts wrecking the world”s last pristine…

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