| 1. | In 1991 the United Nations placed a moratorium on huge drift nets.
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| 2. | Prior to this ban, drift nets were reaching lengths of 60 kilometres.
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| 3. | In 1992, the United Nations imposed a general moratorium on drift nets.
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| 4. | Drift nets generally rely on the entanglement properties of loosely affixed netting.
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| 5. | Hatched larvae are also caught in the river with drift nets.
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| 6. | The traditional method used for catching herring was the drift net.
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| 7. | Additionally, as many as 800 leatherback turtles died in drift nets.
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| 8. | A commercial fishing industry was established, taking salmon using drift nets.
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| 9. | The new rules would also phase out drift nets in the Baltic Sea.
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| 10. | Nearly 4, 500 black-footed albatrosses were killed in drift nets in 1990 alone.
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