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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
But the Commerce Dept., bowing to trade ... Fast VIDEO AVAILABLE: Broadcast quality video footage by Samuel LaBudde of the devastating effects of tuna nets on dolphins is available by calling Earth Island (415) 788-3666. For further information, contact ...
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Office of International Affairs - International Agreements
ETP). 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 ... for Fisheries, NOAA Fisheries, that the intentional deployment on or encirclement of dolphins with purse seine nets is not having a significant adverse impact on depleted dolphin stocks in the ETP ...
www.nmfs.noaa.gov

EU To Ban Med Bluefin Tuna Fishing From Next Week
Using purse seine nets is a common method for catching fish species that gather near the surface, like sardines, mackerel, ... seen in 2007," it said in a statement. "Last year, overfishing was largely driven by the industrial purse seine sector of the fleet, which takes more than 70 percent of the total catch," it said ...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu

The Marine Mammal Center
For marine mammals, there is the special problem of accidental entanglement in fishing nets and collisions with boats. Marine mammals that are on the endangered or threatened species list include ... yellowfin tuna has been caught by encircling the dolphins that swim above the tuna with purse seine nets. Over 100,000 dolphins per year died in the 1970s and early 1980s after ...
marinemammalcenter.org

Monterey Bay Aquarium: Seafood Watch Program - Frequently Asked Questions
In the 1950s, fishermen discovered they could catch these yellowfin by setting their nets around the pods of dolphins. In the 1980s, when this became more widely publicized, fishermen changed ... Watch web site. Skipjack and yellowfin destined for the can are predominately caught using purse seine nets. Purse seine nets work by encircling a school of fish and pulling up on the bottom ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
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 ... calling into question the action of the Secretary of Commerce in making his finding that setting nets on dolphins causes no significant adverse impacts on dolphins. The report also points out the lack ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
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 ... participation in the fishery has continued to increase. U.S. tuna fishermen no longer set nets on dolphins, and the major U.S. tuna processors - StarKist, Bumble Bee, and Chicken of ...
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EJF: Impacts of bycatch
European Union's fishing industry. However, the fine meshed trawl nets used to capture brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) also incidentally catch high levels of non-target ... the Eastern Tropical Pacific - ETP). The capture of dolphins that were deliberately targeted in tuna purse-seine nets in the Eastern Pacific Ocean caused an outcry when first brought to pubic attention. ...
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EJF: Impacts of bycatch
European Union's fishing industry. However, the fine meshed trawl nets used to capture brown shrimp (Crangon crangon) also incidentally catch high levels of non-target ... the Eastern Tropical Pacific - ETP). The capture of dolphins that were deliberately targeted in tuna purse-seine nets in the Eastern Pacific Ocean caused an outcry when first brought to pubic attention. ...
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Labelling
The use of driftnets is prohibited. Intentionally encircling or ‘setting’ purse-seine nets on marine mammals (known as dolphin-fishing) at sea is prohibited. Shipments of tuna taken ... or injury to marine mammals and other non-target species by, but not limited to, deploying nets only after dolphins have been driven away unharmed from the fishing area and/or carefully ...
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