This book presents key conclusions about the controversial killing of thousands of dolphins each year during tuna fishing in the eastern tropical Pacific.
Dolphins drown in nets that are set to catch yellowfin tuna, which tend to swim beneath dolphin herds. After 20 years of intense debate among environmentalists, the tuna industry, and policymakers, this fatal by-product of tuna fishing remains a high-profile public issue.
Dolphins and the Tuna Industry provides a neutral examination of the scientific and technical questions at the core of the problem. Recommendations for solutions are offered in two areas: developing new techniques that promise to reduce dolphin mortality with the existing purse-seine method of tuna fishing, and developing entirely new methods of finding tuna that are not swimming with dolphins.
Dolphins and the Tuna Industry provides a comprehensive, highly readable overview of the dolphin-tuna controversy, useful to experts and newcomers to the issue. It explores the processes of tuna fishing and dolphin mortality, the status of the tuna industry, and the significant progress made in reducing dolphin mortality through modifications in fishing practice.
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This book will be indispensible to environmental and animal protection groups, tuna fishing crews and processors, companies that market tuna products, policymakers, regulators, and concerned individuals.
National Research Council. 1992. Dolphins and the Tuna Industry. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/1983.
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Front Matter | i-xiv | |
Executive Summary | 1-12 | |
1 Introduction | 13-21 | |
2 Some Policy and Economic Considerations | 22-33 | |
3 Background on Fishing Gear | 34-37 | |
4 Biology and Ecology of Yellowfin Tuna | 38-41 | |
5 The Behavior of Dolphins and Tuna in the ETP | 42-51 | |
6 Dolphin Mortality and Abundance | 52-71 | |
7 Techniques for Reducing Dolphin Mortality | 72-109 | |
8 Recommendations | 110-119 | |
References | 120-128 | |
Appendix 1 | 129-156 | |
Appendix 2 | 157-165 | |
Appendix 3 | 166-168 | |
Index | 169-176 |
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