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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
ALLOWING THE TRADING IN DOLPHIN DEATH CERTIFICATES The new agreement legitimizes a Dolphin Mortality Limit quota (DML) for tuna vessels, with absolutely no incentives ... is present, and they have done so for decades. Only with the success of our "dolphin safe" campaign have tuna fishing nations raised the "red herring" of nontarget fish losses in " ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
I offer the following point for point rebuttal of GreenpeaceUSA's email response to tuna/dolphin queries. From: "Deborah Rephan" (Deborah.Rephan@wdc.Greenpeace.org) Organization: Greenpeace Date: Thu, 29 Apr ... harm on a marine mammal to catch fish). To sum up -- the old definition prohibited dolphin mortality in the ETP using the encirclement method of fishing because the encirclement of dolphins ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
NMFS director Bill Hogarth. "This agreement has reduced dolphin mortality from hundreds of thousands of dolphins to approximately 2,000 dolphins per year." In ... continue to conduct about $3 million per year worth of research and monitoring on depleted dolphin stocks. Working with the IATTC and the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission, the agency will ...
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Gold Seal - Products - Dolphin Friendly
Pacific Ocean by a purse seine vessel in a set in which a dolphin mortality occurred as documented by observers by weight calculation and well location." top Written support ... labelling definition is expected to provide an incentive for the fishermen to seek zero porpoise mortality for every fishing set. Regarding the population levels of the porpoise stocks, Tuna Commission scientists ...
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... newly captive) understood that they could escape nets simply by jumping over them, then the dolphin mortality problem that has existed for decades in the tuna fishery in the eastern tropical ... a spontaneous response of leaping over an obstacle appears not to have evolved in the dolphin's natural behavior repertoire (interestingly, domesticated horses also do not jump over obstacles *naturally* - they ...
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Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
IDCPA. Two programs run by NMFS' Southwest Fisheries Science Center aim to conserve spinner dolphins: Dolphin-Safe Program focuses on reducing fishing-related dolphin mortality by developing alternative fishing methods that do not involve dolphins. Dolphin Energetics Program focuses on determining whether energetics limitations associated with ...
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Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
Two programs run by NMFS' Southwest Fisheries Science Center aim to conserve spotted dolphins: The Dolphin-Safe Program focuses on reducing fishing-related dolphin mortality by developing alternative fishing methods that do not involve dolphins. The Dolphin Energetics Program focuses on determining whether energetics limitations associated with ...
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The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
At the centre of these controversies have been two research and ... and injury, proponents of the Declaration of Panama have argued that the current definition of "dolphin-safe" is misleading because it implies that no dolphins were killed, that such tuna is ...
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The Dolphin Institute - Whale Research
Hawaii sightings of calves and .37 based on sightings in Alaska (Baker, Perry & Herman, 1987). The lower figure in Alaska was likely attributable to calf mortality during the first year of life. Mating system of the humpback whale. The social organization and behaviors of male humpback whales in the winter ground had characteristics similar to that a lekking system ...
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Pink Amazonian River Dolphin
Tropical Rainforest (ISPTR), whose first globally known project PARD, the Preservation of the Amazonian River Dolphin. Click here to download a 1/2 minute video that represents a plea for support ... they remain suspicious of human beings and maintain a certain distance. Roxanne interacting with dolphin Incidental mortality due to fishing nets is very common throughout the Amazon Basin, although it is ...
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