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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
"Dolphin Safe" tuna label. Tuna fishermen in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) target dolphins because tuna and dolphins form mixed schools. Since the late 1950's, the tuna fishery has killed more than 7 million dolphins. However, since 1990 and the advent of the "Dolphin Safe" tuna ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
"Dolphin Safe" tuna label. Tuna fishermen in the Eastern Tropical Pacific (ETP) target dolphins because tuna and dolphins form mixed schools. Since the late 1950's, the tuna fishery has killed more than 7 million dolphins. However, since 1990 and the advent of the "Dolphin Safe" tuna ...
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Legislation - Fisheries and Marine Mammals: Most Recent Developments
Bluefin Tuna. On July 30, 1997, TRAFFIC Oceania, a trade monitoring program of the World Wide Fund for Nature, released a report "The Review of the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery: Implications for Ecologically Sustainable Management." The study concluded that southern bluefin tuna are below a biologically safe level (the population mature southern bluefin tuna is ...
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Fisheries and Marine Mammals: Most Recent Developments -- 8/29/97
Fishery Conservation and Management Act amendments addressing overfishing, stock rebuilding, and optimum yield. NMFS will receive comments through Sept. 18, 1997. [NMFS press release] . {Albacore Tuna Fishery. In early August 1997, Alaska vessels began delivering albacore tuna to Kodiak processors from a fishery about 1,200 miles south of Kodiak. The unregulated high seas fishery ...
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Ocean Alliance - VOYAGE OF THE ODYSSEY - Indian Ocean Logs
Watch the Odyssey report: Real Audio - >28k February 13, 2003 'Tuna Pole Fishery' "The tuna fishery is the pillar of Maldivian society. The Maldivian tuna fishery is known to date as far back as the sixteenth ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
Eastern Tropical Pacific tuna fishery under the international agreement," said NMFS director Bill Hogarth. "This agreement has reduced ... tuna fishery has decreased over the years while foreign participation in the fishery has continued to increase. U.S. tuna fishermen no longer set nets on dolphins, and the major U.S. tuna ...
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Office of International Affairs - International Agreements
(IDCP) supported by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC ) . In the fall of 1992, the nations participating in the ETP tuna fishery convened at the annual meeting of the IATTC ... the tuna purse seine fishery and dolphins in the ETP NOAA Fisheries Southwest Regional Office Tuna and Marine Mammals NOAA Fisheries Southwest Fisheries Science Center Dolphin Safe Program U.S. Tuna Tracking ...
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EJF: What are tuna?
Atlantic tuna fishery: yellowfin (Thunnus albacares), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamus), bigeye (Th. obesus), albacore (Th. alalunga) and Atlantic bluefin tuna (Th. thynnus). Three of these ... the Mediterranean What are tuna? Are tuna stocks being overfished? Tuna - a feast for pirate fishers ICCAT's fight against the tuna pirates How was your tuna caught? WEST AFRICA Pirate ...
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A Tuna Tale
Central and South America. Within this area is the yellowfin tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP). The ETP yellowfin tuna fishery covers over 8 million square miles of ocean, an area ... tuna (lightmeat tuna) per year, about 20 to 25% of the world's canned tuna supply. The ETP is the world's largest yellowfin tuna fishery and produces about 30% of the world's yellowfin tuna ...
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Monterey Bay Aquarium: Conservation Research - Revealing Tuna Secrets
Our demand for tuna threatens bluefins Bluefin tuna are also the basis of an incredibly lucrative commercial fishery, one that in some regions has led to steep declines over the past three decades because of growing pressure to catch these valuable giants. A single giant Atlantic bluefin tuna ...
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