Over 300,000 whales/dolphins die in fishing nets annually

Environmental News Service ^ | June 12, 2003

[cogitator]

This goes hand-in-hand with restricting the fishing industry to help restore stocks of large pelagic fish.

[bedolido]

I'm surprised that there's that many whales and dolphins alive at all.

[steve8714]

I quit eating tuna...it doesn't taste as good without dolphin. Also, whale oil makes an excellent diesel fuel for my Lincoln.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Is this the same group that falsely reported salmon runs over the last few decades and killed off the living of fishermen in the Pac NW?

[NC Conservative]

Can we ever get liberals to say this

Several Millions of species babies will be lost in the next few decades if nothing is done about abortion."

Their motto. Save whales Kill babies.

[LibWhacker]

More bogus numbers from the envirobogulists.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

My SUV seats are lined with seal fur. It's great.

[nothingnew]

I quit eating tuna...it doesn't taste as good without dolphin.

Me too......mmmmmmmmm...whale/dolphin...it's what's for dinner...grilled.

FMCDH

[Dick Vomer]

less filling...... taste great

[BrooklynGOP]

Over 300,000 whales/dolphins die in fishing nets annually

Hey, as long as the tuna's ok :)

[Corin Stormhands]

One man's dolphin is another man's mahi-mahi...

[bedolido]

actually... after a long swim upstream, even salmon smell like fish

[Grampa Dave]

Probably!

They are for the critters and want to starve the humans of the world.

They are for banning DDT to kill hundreds of thousands of innocent third world country people.

Anne Coulter apparently really labels and skewers these anti human Watermelon Jihadist enviralnuts rather hard in her next book.

[heckler]

My B.S.-O'meter is pegged.

[bedolido]

lol... definately smells a bit fishy

[Servant of the Nine]

If the numbers were truly this high there would be Frozen Dolphin Burgers for sale in every grocery store.

This is more "Greenpeace type" Guestimating.

So9

[freebilly]

Some 308,000 whales, dolphins and porpoises - collectively known as cetaceans - die each year from entanglement in fishing gear, finds new research by U.S. and British scientists. "Several species will be lost in the next few decades if nothing is done."

Heck, just bring in illegal alien whales and dolphins from Baja to replace them....

[Conspiracy Guy]

Fishing must be banned. We need to eat more bear.

[Tempest]

Propaganda.

Plain and simple. If that truly were the death rate. Whales and dolphins would have been extinct 10 year ago.

[templar]

I wonder what a fisherman thinks when he pulls in his net and finds a whale in it?