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

Environmental News Service ^ | June 12, 2003

[JohnnyZ]

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

Oh, the Eric Rudolph diet?

[ChiMark]

I thought whales and dolphins were smart. Can't they figure out how to avoid nets?

[Conspiracy Guy]

I hate salamander, too chewy. Like a slug. Dumpster diving isn't my thing either.

[hchutch]

Thankfully, I only eat dolphin-safe veal.

;)

[husky ed]

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

Fine since their dead already, can we throw them in with the tuna to add some flavor?

[ErnBatavia]

More bogus numbers from the envirobogulists.

Having ended, last year, 25 years in the seafood importing biz, I'd tend to say those numbers are just a tad bit inflated....

Orange Roughy, though, may suffer severe depletion. They can live nearly a hundred years, and to be of harvestable size, they are pushing well up there in age. Eventually there may be no more mature fish to regenerate.

[dalereed]

Since a bottle nosed porpoise supposedly eats at least 40# of tuna a day, why is it that these same nuts are screaming about a decline in tuna.

As far as the above there are probably as many of them in the ocean as there are humans.

On one trip to Cabo for over 24 hours there were bottle nose porpoise moving north as far as you could see in both directions as we were going south at 12k.

[dfwgator]

"The tuna doesn't taste as good as it used too."

[Burkeman1]

Yep. That number is ridiculous. If true- dolphins and whales would have been all killed off in a matter of half a dozen years. Funny- I saw wild dolphins swimming along the beach in Florida about ten times while I was there this Winter. I have already seen whales this year between the cape and Nantucket.

[dfwgator]

Must've come from the same group that said that 20 million slaves drowned in the Atlantic.

[Archimedes2000]

You mean the same group that is now claiming there were 12 million Native Indians in America pre-European contact? What a steaming 3-coiler.

[Burkeman1]

How about the claims that a million American teen girls died from Anorexia or belumia every year! Or the stat that 1 in 3 American women was the victim of sexual assualt or rape! Nonsence! You mean the same group that is now claiming there were 12 million Native Indians in America pre-European contact? What a steaming 3-coiler.

Actually that is entirely possible if not more. Sadly- most were wiped out centuries before their ancestors ever set eyes on "white men" because of the first initial contacts with Europeons that brought diseases they had no resistance to and which spread all throughout North and South America well in advance of the "white man". When the Spanish explored the Mississippi Delta they found the remnants of the "mound building" culture that had only a generation before been wiped out by small pox before they had ever seen a white man.

[GladesGuru]

That lingering aftertaste is due to the mercury mixing with the DDT residues and forming a noxious substance called Greenup". Too much in your fish serving and the green is up.

However, this is the latest from the Congo:

"Natives announce new sauce for long pig dinners."

The NPR reporter said it goes well with the small portions now being popularized in the war zone. UN comments are expected momentarily.

After we receive the latest enlightenment from the UN, perhaps we can expect a new ad campaign about teh newest meat, fresh from Africa.

It'll definitely save some fish, somewhere, sometime - won't it?

[drhogan]

i am a bit sceptical about these numbers also, but I think saving whales and dolphins is a good thing, especially if it can be done cooperatively with the fishermen. Saving whales doesn't mean you have to kill babies. I like whales and babies--why not save both.