The seal was discovered after it got caught in an abandoned or lost fishing net, campaigners say.
Campaigners are warning about the dangers of abandoned and lost fishing nets after a seal was found dead.
Cornwall Wildlife Trust retrieved the body of the seal, which had been caught up in the disused netting in west Cornwall on Thursday. The wildlife trust urged anyone who spotted animals, dead or alive, caught in so-called ghost nets, to call it in.It confirmed they would be recycling the net.Andy Cowie, from the wildlife trust, said a volunteer found the seal with "a lot of ghost netting wrapped around it".
"Although [the seal] is dead, there is a lot of vital information we can find out and we can record it," he said.
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