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Pulled lifeless from a commercial fishing net off the Otago coast, the adult female yellow-eyed penguin had drowned in a silent, unseen death.
She was the last known breeding-age female Hoiho from the Sandfly Bay colony.
#NZOverFishing
thepost.co.nz
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