One of the worst examples of wildlife exploitation in the history of the world is provided by the whaling industry. So far, no species of whale has gone extinct because of whaling, but many species have been reduced to "commercial extinction" (too rare to be worth hunting), and many local populations, or 'stocks', have been eliminated.

[Source: Peter J. Bryant, School of Biological Sciences, University of California]
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What is LFAS? LFAS is an acronym for a United States Navy project, known as Low Frequency Active Sonar. This project is aimed at detecting the presence of submarines using low frequency sounds. The reasoning behind using low frequency sounds is that those sounds travel great distances.

See my story here from 2002.
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