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1984b
Gulf dugongs resurrect.
BBC Wildlife 2(7): 362. July 1984.
–Suggests that the report (in the previous February's BBC Wildlife) of heavy dugong casualties in 1983 from oil spills in the Iran-Iraq War may have underestimated dugong numbers in the Arabian Gulf. Quotes Peter Dickinson that in Abu Dhabi, probably 40-70 dugongs per year were caught incidentally, and "even 30 years ago, most of the sandals on Abu Dhabi island were dugong leather."

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Accidental Death or Injury
(SEE ALSO: Conservation; Hunting and Capture; Natural Death or Injury)
  x 1984b Anon. (DD; Arabian Gulf; oil spills, fishing; 362.)
Asia
(SEE ALSO: Arctic Region; Bering Sea; China; East Indies; Indian Ocean; India; Japan; Red Sea; Russia; Sakhalin; Sri Lanka; Taiwan)
  x 1984b Anon. (DD; Arabian Gulf; deaths from oil spills and fishing; leather used for sandals; 362.)
Dugong dugon (Müller, 1776) Palmer, 1895
  x 1984b Anon. (DD; Arabian Gulf; deaths from oil spills and fishing; leather used for sandals; 362.)
Economic Uses
(SEE ALSO: Archeological Sites, Sirenia at; Hunting and Capture; Medicinal Applications; Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance; Weed Control)
  x 1984b Anon. (DD; Abu Dhabi; leather used for sandals; 362.)
Religious, Superstitious, or Ornamental Use or Observance
(SEE ALSO: Economic Use; Mermaid Legend)
  1984b Anon. (DD; tears)

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