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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
One cannot understand the battle to protect the "dolphin-safe" tuna label without realizing the World Trade Organization (WTO), and the wide-ranging corporate establishment that ... been no efforts, either by the U.S. government or by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, to restrict net sets on logs or other floating objects, where the highest bycatch ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
The numbers quoted by Leape are apparently data from the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC). The IATTC, during the recent review by the Secretary of Commerce, stated that ... GreenpeaceUSA has endorsed shifting bycatch biomass grossly toward more dolphins. set sustainable catch quotas for tuna and require the closure of the fishery if limits are reached; This is a red ...
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Eco-Index: What's New
Carlos Drews, Regional Marine Program and Species Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean for the World Wildlife Fund, talks about WWF's efforts to partner with the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission to reduce sea turtle bycatch in Pacific fisheries. Archive Resources & Data Monthly Update Summaries and links to profiles added to the Eco-Index in the past month. Subscribe to receive ...
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Office of International Affairs - International Agreements
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission and the Department of State. The affirmative findings will remain in effect until March ... States. Because purse seine vessels in excess of 400 short tons carrying capacity harvest yellowfin tuna in the ETP under Mexico’s and Spain’s jurisdictions, these nations are required to ...
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A Tuna Tale
This multi-country fleet has operated under the conservation programs of the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) since 1949. Because of the presence of this conservation program, this fishery boasts one ... it has resulted in one of the cleanest, most efficient fisheries in the world. Fishing for tuna swimming in association with dolphins results in discards of less than 0.1 percent of ...
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The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
US management of the dolphin populations in the EPO. The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) has been active in the research on tunas and their international management since ... safe" sets are made on small tunas associated with floating objects ("log sets") and unassociated tuna swimming at the surface ("schoolfish sets"). Outside the EPO, there is little or no monitoring ...
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Marine Wildlife Photographer Bill Boyce - underwater photos of billfish, sharks, gamefish, tuna and dolphins for sale
US Forest Service in Tahoe National Forest. Later he worked for the Inter American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) managing the harvest of tunas, dolphins and sharks by the Eastern Pacific tuna ... low as US$8.95 for a 5x7 photo. PHOTOS FOR SALE AT www.boyceimage.com Sharks Tuna Dolphins and Sea Turtles Billfish Gamefish 1999-2008 National Coalition for Marine Conservation 4 Royal Street ...
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NCMC Conservation News - NCMC Briefs Congress on Bluefin Tuna Crisis
I called The Two Faces of ICCAT, about how the breakdown over bluefin tuna overshadowed progress on other species, in particular swordfish: It was Sunday morning, November 26th, the ... they ever learn? When indeed. In 2006, in Croatia, on the Mediterranean coast, the international tuna commission was celebrating its 40th Anniversary. As incoming Chairman Bill Hogarth of the United States ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
NMFS report indicating that thousands of dolphins, particularly baby dolphins, are still dying in tuna nets in the eastern tropical Pacific. The New Year's Eve finding cleared the way ... S. Marine Mammal Commission, the agency will conduct annual reviews of the effectiveness of the IDCP and continue to develop conservation measures to recover depleted dolphins and maintain tuna stocks. The ...
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Tuna
East Atlantic and critically endangered in the West Atlantic. Pacific bluefin tuna has very low resilience to fishing and current rates are unsustainable. In the Indian Ocean ... the EU banned the import of tuna from countries whose fishing activities undermine efforts to conserve and manage stocks in a sustainable way. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic ...
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