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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
NOT recovering, despite low observed death rates in the nets. This suggests -- not surprisingly -- that the practice of repeatedly ... , the large foreign tuna fleets that set nets on dolphins also routinely set their nets on floating objects, when the opportunity is ... campaign, which includes a prohibition on the use of high seas drift nets, has made a major worldwide contribution to the reduction ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
This fishing method, accurately called "inherently flawed" by GreenpeaceUSA once upon a ... the only thing that counts in this fishery. If outright deaths of dolphins in the nets were all that mattered, improved performance might be a relevant goal from a management perspective ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Examples of techniques now in use include gill nets that entrap fish more effectively, the use of ever larger purse seines, and drift nets that stretch out tens of miles from the large ... be all too easily overstated. Gill nets and drift nets, for example, pose a threat to fish stocks only to the extent that the number of these nets in use may take quantities of ...
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Other Lists
The Sea Shepherd is involved in several campaigns, including the fight against whaling, dolphin slaughter, drift nets and seal killing. This is a volunteer, information collection and distribution service, for the Sea ...
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Greentrack Homepage
Italy where fishermen still use illegal drift nets, and turtles are still illegally kept for the pot. Unfortunately, ... position a turtle with a transmitter had been caught in the nets and released. Too far away, was the thought, but nothing ... worked for "Paola", taking her, when in trouble, to the nets of a friendly and humane fisherman. While "Paola" continues steadily ...
euroturtle.org


Greentrack Homepage
Adriatic and thirdly because illegal fishing using the disastrous drift nets is prevalent in Italy at this time of year. One of the victims of this ...
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Labelling
Crew members are prohibited from shooting, harpooning or in any way intentionally harming marine ... tuna industry to ensure that companies are not selling tuna caught by setting nets on dolphins, or in drift nets. Monitors are located in every continent of the world including Europe. IMP Europe ...
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Hectors Dolphin Set Nets
Nets | Map | Protection | Resources Set Nets Kill Dolphins A set net is a type of set net. Nets not anchored to the seabed are called drift nets. Drift nets over 1 kilometre long were banned in New Zealand waters in 1989. Set nets ... marine mammals get caught in the discarded nets and drown. Discarded nets can also cause problems for ...
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Ocean Alliance - WHALE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - Conservation
The threats to their existence - the resumption of commercial whaling, the entrapment of cetaceans in drift-nets and the pollution of ecosystems by poisonous chemicals - attract the concern of people interested in ...
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Ocean Alliance - WHALE CONSERVATION INSTITUTE - Conservation
Along with the menace posed by the imminent resumption of commercial whaling and illegal drift-nets, whales and marine mammals in general must also endure the less understood threats of ocean ...
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