A viewer reached out to Tampa Bay 28 about pelicans getting injured near the Skyway Bridge, so reporter Annette Gutierrez looked into it.

The skyway fishing piers draw dozens of anglers every day - and sometimes, they come across pelicans.

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"I feel very sad, very sad," said Osbaldo Leon, a fisherman.

"No one wants to mess with the birds, but it happens," said Hakan Ozer, a fisherman.

And unfortunately some of them end up hooked, entangled, or worse case scenario dead.

"Even if you manage to save them, you still feel bad because you see them, they're suffering," said Ozer.

Knowing this -- a woman sent an email to Tampa Bay with a message saying Tampas symbolic Skyway Bridge is, being tarnished around that bridge and the adjacent fishing piers d

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