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WATCH | Dozens of dolphins beached on France's Atlantic coast

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Several dozen dolphin carcasses have been found on the beaches of the Atlantic coast of France on Monday, in a new massive beaching that environmental associations attribute to weather conditions and "very strong fishing pressure".

On the beaches of the Ile de Ré, at least fifteen of these cetaceans have washed up over the last three days.   

On Tuesday, activists from the environmental organisation Sea Shepherd on Tuesday deposited bloody dolphin corpses in front of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, in the hope that the EU will force France to stop non-selective fishing techniques. 

"We come before the European Parliament because today the French state does nothing, there are no effective measures to protect dolphins. The European Commission has asked France to act, but nothing is done. We ask that Europe be more intransigent," explained Frederic Pizzol, co-head of mission at Sea Shepherd France to the media.



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