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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
(The Secretary's anti-dolphin decision was praised by GreenpeaceUSA and Center for Marine Conservation, which organizations seem determined ... has been a failure to recover as expected by both the northeastern offshore spotted dolphin and eastern spinner dolphin stocks. Our first examination of a large amount of data on the region' ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
ETP that are listed as "depleted" by the NMFS. The northeast offshore spotted dolphin and the eastern spinner dolphin stocks are seriously depleted, ... dolphin stocks in the ETP have not increased despite the extremely low observed mortality -- some of the most severely depleted stocks are still declining. Any setting of nets on these depleted stocks ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
The Commerce Department, which overseas NMFS, was required by Congress to conduct research and make a finding regarding the impact of the tuna purse seine fishery on depleted dolphin stocks in the Eastern Tropical Pacific, before changing the criteria for using the dolphin safe label. The agency's decision, just meeting ...
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Spinner Dolphin (Stenella longirostris) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
As part of this determination, Congress specified that population surveys be undertaken in 1998, 1999, and 2000 to generate new estimates of dolphin abundance ... Dolphin Energetics Program focuses on determining whether energetics limitations associated with the fishing practice may be contributing to the observed lack of recovery of fishery-associated dolphin stocks ...
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Pantropical Spotted Dolphin (Stenella attenuata) - Office of Protected Resources - NOAA Fisheries
As part of this determination, Congress specified that population surveys be undertaken in 1998, 1999, and 2000 to generate new estimates of dolphin abundance ... Dolphin Energetics Program focuses on determining whether energetics limitations associated with the fishing practice may be contributing to the observed lack of recovery of fishery-associated dolphin stocks ...
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2007 Meeting in Anchorage
The Committee was saddened to receive news that the baiji, a Chinese river dolphin is probably extinct as a result of habitat degradation and incidental capture. It was greatly ... whales, Southern Hemisphere humpback whales, Southern Hemisphere blue whales and a number of other small stocks of bowhead, right and gray whales. There was positive evidence of increases in abundance for ...
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Small cetaceans
The IWC has also established a voluntary fund to assist participation by ... of monodontid whales (white whales and narwhals), freshwater cetaceans (Irrawaddy dolphin, tucuxi, boto, Indus river dolphin, Ganges river dolphin, finless porpoise and baiji), Dall’s propoise, humpback dolphins and ...
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Gold Seal - Products - Dolphin Friendly
Ocean tuna fishery? Will Congress accept proven scientific advise that implementation of the U.S. dolphin-safe policy throughout the eastern Pacific Ocean would endanger yellow fin tuna conservation and ...
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EDGE of Existence :: Yangtze River dolphin
In particular, the recently completed Three Gorges Dam is likely to affect downstream fish stocks and further reduce areas of suitable habitat. Population fragmentation is also likely to have ... of fishermen interviews along the Yangtze River, to investigate which factors drove the Yangtze River dolphin to the edge of extinction, and whether local knowledge suggests that any dolphins might ...
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The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
Dolphin Population Issues The basic issue in the tuna-dolphin controversy used to be quite straightforward: dolphin mortality was too high, and dolphin populations were declining. With ... to optimum sustainable population levels. With the exception of the two depleted stocks, all stocks are already below the Zero Mortality Rate Goal that the MMPA requires US ...
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