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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
A review of literature on stress in mammals suggested that fishery-caused stress is a plausible 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 as a possible cause. ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
ETP purse seine fishery. In all other tuna fisheries, true incidental take may still occur and that tuna will ... label definition change. There has actually been dramatic success in reducing dolphin deaths in this tuna fishery, but GreenpeaceUSA does not believe that the label was responsible for this. Rather we attribute ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) announced that after new research, it had concluded that the tuna purse seine industry practice of encircling dolphins to catch tuna has "no significant adverse impact on ... 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 ...
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Office of International Affairs - International Agreements
The objectives of the Agreement are to reduce incidental dolphin mortalities in the tuna purse-seine fishery through the setting of annual limits, seek alternative means of capturing large yellowfin tunas ... limits on the maximum number of dolphins that could be incidentally killed annually in the fishery, lowering the maximum each year over seven years, with a goal of eliminating dolphin mortality ...
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2007 IUCN Red List – Search
Mid-water trawls on the Patagonian shelf pose a risk to common dolphins and other anchovy predators (Crespo et al. 2000). Short-beaked Common Dolphins were heavily exploited by the tuna purse seine fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific during the 1960s and 1970s. They experienced large-scale mortality in high-seas driftnets in ...
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NOAA Fisheries Service Publishes Final 2006 List of Fisheries
The California purse seine fishery, the mid-Atlantic menhaden purse seine fishery and the Chesapeake Bay inshore gillnet fishery have been elevated to Category II from ... III. Also, NOAA Fisheries Service reclassified the Alaska Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands Greenland turbot longline fishery to Category III from Category II. Seven additional fisheries were added to the LOF for ...
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NOAA Fisheries Feature
Fisheries disentanglement efforts. Final Rule to Implement Amendment 2 to the Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan (6/25/08) This rule, designed to rebuild overfished species of Atlantic sharks ... 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 ...
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NCMC Conservation News - Gulf of California Sardine Fishery Considered for Sustainability Label
Pacific GULF OF CALIFORNIA SARDINE FISHERY CONSIDERED FOR SUSTAINABILITY LABEL 2/08 NCMC was recently joined by 10 other nationally-recognized ... 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 ...
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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 wholesale ...
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Marine Connection - Bycatch News
(Added:- 6 June 2008) The numbers of Northeastern offshore spotted and eastern spinner dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP)may be increasing after being severely depleted because of their deaths in the tuna purse-seine fishery between 1960 and 1990. However as NOAA who carried out the study agree, they have to be careful not to jump to ...
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