If it had been my call, I would have punted and told the guys in the Capital that the ball was in their court to get their fiscal house in order, because that is the main source of the problem.

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Pollution also poses a threat: floating plastic bags look a lot like the jellyfish they rely on as their main food source, and have been found in the digestive systems of about half of the leatherbacks studied in recent times.

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The village at one time had 40 households involved in handloom production as their main source of livelihood.

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For instance, a plastic bag discarded in the sea could be mistaken by a turtle for a jellyfish, their main source of food.

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