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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
But the Commerce Dept., bowing to trade pressure from Mexican tuna millionaires and in order to avoid sanctions from the World Trade Organization (WTO), has weakened the ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
Commerce of the U.S.A. made a bogus decision in declaring that chasing and setting purse-seine nets around dolphins had "no significant impact" on their populations. The Secretary based his conclusions upon ... contributor to such a failure. These latter two observations do not provide 'proof' that the tuna purse seine fishery is the cause of the failures to recover but neither do they dismiss it ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
Eastern Tropical Pacific by large purse seine vessels can be labeled dolphin safe even if dolphins are encircled, so long as ... fishing method. Under the International Dolphin Conservation Program (IDCP), fishers were required to change their purse seine fishing methods, and since the 1980s, confirmed dolphin mortalities have dropped to about 2 ...
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Office of International Affairs - International Agreements
MMPA requires a nation harvesting yellowfin tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP) with purse seine vessels greater than 400 short tons (362.8 metric tons) carrying capacity to have ... Conservation Program Act, September 2002 [pdf] [1 MB] More information about interactions between the tuna purse seine fishery and dolphins in the ETP NOAA Fisheries Southwest Regional Office Tuna and Marine ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - How Fish are Caught or Farmed
Click on a method for more information. Dredging Gillnetting Harpooning Hook and Lining Longlining Purse Seining Traps and Pots Trawling/Dragging Trolling Fish Farming (Aquaculture) Fish farming, also known as ... longlines through a chute to reduce seabird interactions. Back to top Printable Fact Sheet Purse SeiningA purse seine is a large wall of netting that encircles a school of fish. Fishermen ...
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Gold Seal - Harvesting Wild Salmon
On average 23% of all commercially harvested salmon are gillnet caught. top Purse Seine A purse seine is a net which is set in the water and then pulled into a circle, as ... the seine boat. Approximately 50% of all salmon commercially harvested are caught by means of purse seining. top Troll Troll-produced salmon are caught using hooks and lines. The troll boat draws lures through the ...
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SCS: South African / Australian Fur Seal (Arctocephalus pusillus)
Malgas in March 1999 and again in February 2000 in order to protect Cape gannet fledglings on the island from seal predation. There are numerous interactions between South African fur seals and line, trawl and purse-seine fisheries, seals being accused of taking fish from the nets and lines or chasing the fish away. Many seals drown in the ...
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NOAA Fisheries Feature
Fisheries Study Indicates Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean Dolphin Populations May Be Improving (6/25/08) Bycatch of dolphins in the purse-seine fishery for tropical tuna in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean has been a marine conservation issue for decades. Due to various conservation and management actions, the number of dolphins killed in the international fishery has ...
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NCMC Conservation News - Gulf of California Sardine Fishery Considered for Sustainability Label
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's Marine Aquaculture Task Force, regard as a major threat to ocean ecosystems. The Gulf of California sardine fishery, which deploys a fleet of purse-seine vessels out of Guaymas and Yavaros, Mexico, targets Pacific sardine and Pacific thread herring - two critically important forage fish ...
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Gold Seal - Products - Dolphin-Friendly Canned Tuna
First, it is important to recognize that the killing of dolphins is primarily a problem with the yellowfin tuna purse-seine fishery in the Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean near Central America and South America. Gold Seal only imports tuna caught in the Western Pacific Ocean. Second, Gold Seal neither employs tuna fishermen nor purchases tuna on a ...
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