"Dolphin-safe" Tuna?

[wet]

The ecological disaster that is dolphin safe tuna Southern Fried Science

A different view of commercial fishing tuna.

'Dolphin-safe' fishing is safer for dolphins but worse for sea turtles, and other animals attracted to floating objects used to bait tuna.

 

[DeepThought]

Eye opening.
There seems to be a recurrent theme in which when it comes to the environmental issues, emotional arguments weigh more than numbers and facts...

 

[jimy286]

Buga the dolphins. Iv worked commercial fishing, netting and seen 1 stuck...never herd of anyone doing it either...these are people that have done it for 30 to 40 years.

Long liners are the main fishery decimating shark populations.

I even once saw a whale (hump back) come and rub its self on the net for a little scratch.

Consider the fact that a woman should not dive with a dolphin if she is pregnant as they can tell that there is something different and sometimes bump them.

 

[Seacidal]

Consider tuna caught the old fashioned way. Pole and line. One man, one fish.

www.AmericanAlbacore.com

American Tuna - Six Fishing Families - San Diego, CA. - Welcome

Certified sustainable. But then again, I'm probably a little biased.

 

[wet]

Number of Boeing 747 airplanes that could fit on the ground in New York's Yankee Stadium....2

Number of Boeing 747s that could fit inside the largest size of trawl net used to catch ocean fish by commercial "factory ships"...12

Endangered Coast


I am NOT anti-industrial fishing, which is just a scaled-up version of traditional fishing. Better tech., bigger nets, longer lines -> smaller fish, every time.

I'm just asking: is there a better way? One is designed holes in the nets allowing a certain number to escape. That is how predation works in nature most of the time. A lion/shark/orca will generally pause or play or exhaust at some point in a pursuit, allowing a percent of the healthy prey a chance to escape. This allows descendants and future stocks.

In sport fishing, catch and release of big spawners means sustained stocks, industrial fishing needs this as well in some form, else the stocks and ecosystem will collapse with even small environmental stress.

Fish have not evolved escape mechanisms against modern fishing. Elimination of future fisheries is guaranteed if resource extraction policies allow unsustainable removal of large fish using higher and higher technological means.

off soapbox.

 

[joe123321]

Over fishing makes me a sad panda