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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
But the Commerce Dept., bowing to trade ... 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 to the United States. Because purse seine vessels in excess of 400 short tons carrying capacity ... 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 ... 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 ...
www.flmnh.ufl.edu
The Marine Mammal Center
Over 100,000 dolphins per year died in the 1970s and early 1980s after being caught in tuna nets, and several species of dolphins in ... page or the National Marine Fisheries Service Dolphin Interactions with the Eastern Tropical Pacific Tuna Purse Seine Fishery page. Another marine mammal, the southern sea otter, was driven to the verge of ...
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 ... are predominately caught using purse seine nets. Purse seine nets work by encircling a school of fish and pulling up on the bottom of the net to cinch it closed like a purse-string. The bag is ...
mbayaq.org
Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
The ... latter two observations do not provide 'proof' that the tuna purse seine fishery is the cause of the failures to recover ... the Secretary of Commerce in making his finding that setting nets on dolphins causes no significant adverse impacts on dolphins. ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
Hundreds of thousands of dolphins died because of this fishing method. Under the International Dolphin Conservation Program (IDCP), fishers were required to change their purse seine ...
organicconsumers.org
EJF: Impacts of bycatch
BRDs have been used very successfully to reduce bycatch in the cold-water shrimp fisheries of Canada, Iceland and Norway. Case study: Tuna Purse-seine Fisheries, Dolphins ... 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. ...
ejfoundation.org
EJF: Impacts of bycatch
BRDs have been used very successfully to reduce bycatch in the cold-water shrimp fisheries of Canada, Iceland and Norway. Case study: Tuna Purse-seine Fisheries, Dolphins ... 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. ...
ejfoundation.org
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Intentionally encircling or ‘setting’ purse-seine nets on marine mammals (known as dolphin-fishing) at sea is prohibited. Shipments of tuna taken by purse-seine nets in the Eastern Tropical Pacific ... vessel (400 gross tons and above only) during the entire trip and that purse-seine nets were not intentionally deployed during the trip to encircle marine mammals. Companies must ...
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