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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
The article claims most "dolphin safe" tuna fishing is done by setting nets on floating objects with high bycatch. This is false. The vast proportion of "dolphin safe" tuna ... and disingenuous. The "dolphin safe" campaign, which includes a prohibition on the use of high seas drift nets, has made a major worldwide contribution to the reduction of bycatch and rid the oceans of ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
This fishing method, accurately called "inherently flawed" by GreenpeaceUSA once upon a ... not the only thing that counts in this fishery. If outright deaths of dolphins in the nets were all that mattered, improved performance might be a relevant goal from a management perspective. But ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Gill nets and drift nets, for example, pose a threat to fish stocks only to the extent that the number of these nets in use may take quantities of fish greater than what is prescribed as optimal by fishery managers. If we put aside more ...
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Other Lists
SEASHEPHERD, is the Sea Shepherd electronic mailing list. The Sea Shepherd is involved in several campaigns, including the fight against whaling, dolphin slaughter, drift nets and seal killing. This is a volunteer, information collection and distribution service, for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and related issues. The list owner / contact is: Nick Voth , To ...
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Greentrack Homepage
This would avoid the area off Italy where fishermen still use illegal drift nets, and turtles are still illegally kept for the pot. Unfortunately, the only transmitter the Research ... seems that the fates had again worked for "Paola", taking her, when in trouble, to the nets of a friendly and humane fisherman. While "Paola" continues steadily eastward, broadcasting her signal of ...
euroturtle.org

Greentrack Homepage
Skala beach is a sea turtle nesting area secondly because the water temperature in the lonian sea is higher, at this time of year than in the Adriatic and thirdly because illegal fishing using the disastrous drift nets is prevalent in Italy at this time of year. One of the victims of this illegal and destructive method of fishing was Paola ...
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Labelling
EII dolphin-safe criteria also prohibits any accidental killing or serious injury of dolphins, which is ... tuna industry to ensure that companies are not selling tuna caught by setting nets on dolphins, or in drift nets. Monitors are located in every continent of the world including Europe. IMP ...
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Hectors Dolphin Set Nets
Set Nets Kill Dolphins A set net is a type of set net. Nets not anchored to the seabed are called drift nets. Drift nets over 1 kilometre long were banned in New Zealand waters in 1989 ... 50 yellow-eyed penguins, 730 shearwaters, 250 shags and 250 Hector's dolphins were reported drowned in set nets. And lots of drownings are never reported! It is compulsory for fishers to report any catches of marine ...
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Ocean Alliance - WHALE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - Conservation
Whale Conservation Institute. Whales are compelling representatives of the natural world. The threats to their existence - the resumption of commercial whaling, the entrapment of cetaceans in drift-nets and the pollution of ecosystems by poisonous chemicals - attract the concern of people interested in conserving whales and the environment as a whole. The struggle to conserve a ...
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Ocean Alliance - WHALE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - Conservation
The future of whales remains uncertain. Along with the menace posed by the imminent resumption of commercial whaling and illegal drift-nets, whales and marine mammals in general must also endure the less understood threats of ocean-borne toxins. The 1992 collapse of the moratorium on commercial whaling removes an important pillar from the foundation of the ...
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