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EJF: How was your tuna caught?
The size of the tuna caught this way is small, mostly consisting of skipjack, but also some yellowfin and bigeye. Many countries ... This non-target catch, known as "bycatch", is normally thrown back into the ocean, dead or dying. Tuna fishing is no exception to this rule. Longlines, for instance, can catch sharks, rays, sea turtles, ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
Let the Bush Administration Gut Dolphin Protection! Help Prevent Weakening of the 'Dolphin Safe' Tuna Label! Posted September 9, 2002 by International Marine Mammal Project DEADLINE: End of September! Secretary ... the lives of thousands of dolphins. The "Dolphin Safe" label now prohibits use of any tuna caught by chasing and netting dolphins by fishermen (e.g. non-encirclement of dolphins). However ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
However, politically connected tuna millionaires in Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela teamed up with free-trade advocates in the Bush ... alternative fishing methods that do no harm to dolphins. Tell him you will not buy tuna caught by chasing and netting dolphins. Tell him scientists have shown that chasing and netting ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
Conservation groups say the determination, which will ... processors - StarKist, Bumble Bee, and Chicken of the Sea - have pledged they will not buy tuna caught by chasing and netting dolphins. In the mid-1990s, Mexico threatened action against the ...
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Gold Seal - Products - Dolphin-Friendly Canned Tuna
Under the terms of the accord, tuna caught by chasing, encircling and capturing dolphins could be labelled as "dolphin-friendly" so long ... seafoods we are committed to protecting the dolphins and ensuring that Gold Seal brand canned tuna remains "dolphin-friendly". Tell a Friend Site Map Privacy Policy Copyright 2008 Canfisco. All Rights ...
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EJF: What are tuna?
Five species are targeted in the Atlantic tuna fishery: yellowfin (Thunnus albacares), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamus), bigeye (Th. obesus), albacore (Th. alalunga) and Atlantic ... a feast for pirate fishers ICCAT's fight against the tuna pirates How was your tuna caught? WEST AFRICA Pirate Fishing: the Scourge of West Africa Impacts At Sea and On ...
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WWF - Aquaculture problems: Farming wild-caught fish
But according to one report, 22,500 tonnes were farmed in 2004. This has dramatically increased the amount of bluefin tuna caught each year from an already overexploited stock. Some of the tuna ... for aquaculture. This kind of fish farming has had a similarly devastating affect on wild bluefin tuna populations in southern Australia, as well as on European eel populations. Find out what WWF is ...
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Tuna
WWF suggests a sustainable recovery plan, which includes a reduction in tuna fishing and farming capacity. It also calls for improvements in law enforcement and reporting of ... , an extended closed season, control schemes to enforce regulations and a limit to single bluefin tuna caught for recreational fishing. They aim for catches to fall from 32, 000 tonnes to ...
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tuna | Greenpeace UK
"John West must stop selling tuna caught in this way. And, if the whole fishing industry is going to be truly sustainable, then they must ... report claims. Original Article Link The Times: Dolphin-friendly label `misleads consumers' Labels stating that tuna is ``dolphin-friendly'' are misleading consumers into believing that the fish they are eating has ...
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The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
We still do not know enough about tuna populations, however, to predict what would happen to recruitment of young fish into the exploited ... participating countries, and 5) the current "dolphin-safe" definition is consumer fraud because it includes tuna caught with methods known to kill dolphin and without observers onboard. Greenpeace has responded to ...
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