Dolphins
From: Rodger Schlickeisen, President
To: DEN Activists
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: DON'T LET DOLPHINS DIE FOR THE TUNA YOU BUY!
Stop foreign tuna companies from killing our dolphins!
Register your opinion. Public comments due by April 16!
Dear Friend of Wildlife,
One of the most successful wildlife conservation victories – dolphin-safe tuna labeling – is now in danger. Foreign trade interests want to turn back the clock on U.S. marine mammal protection laws passed 12 years ago. If they succeed, canneries will be allowed to apply the “dolphin-safe” label to tuna caught in the eastern tropical Pacific by the barbaric practice of chasing and encircling dolphins to catch the yellow-fin tuna that swim beneath them – a practice that ruthlessly has killed more than 7 million dolphins since the late 1950's! Secretary of Commerce Donald Evans will soon make a decision that will determine the fate of labeling. That’s why I’m asking you to take three simple steps today to help save imperiled dolphins:

1. REGISTER YOUR OPINION BY APRIL 16TH:
Go to http://www.savedolphins.org now to send an e-mail petition to Acting Regional Administrator Rodney R. McInnis of the National Marine Fisheries Service. A copy will go to Secretary Evans. Tell Mr. McInnis and Secretary Evans that you oppose any weakening of the dolphin-safe labeling standard.
2. BECOME A DOLPHIN SPONSOR:
Please go to http://www.defenders.org/adopt/dolphin/ and “adopt” a dolphin today with a gift of $25 or more. Your sponsorship donation will help Defenders educate others to this deadly dolphin danger and underwrite our legal fight to keep dolphin protections.
3. TELL YOUR FRIENDS:
It was the passionate public outcry that led to the adoption of the dolphin-safe label in the first place. We must build that movement FOR
continuing protection again. Tell your friends – send them to
http://www.savedolphins.org so they can send their messages as well.
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DOLPHIN DEADLY: Court ruling undercuts dolphin-safe tuna Defenders of Wildlife is vowing to appeal a judge's decision undermining one of the most significant environmental protections of the 1990s -- the dolphin-safe tuna program created by the U.S. government. Under the ruling from the Court of International Trade, foreign-caught tuna need not be verified as dolphin-safe when it comes into the United States. In addition, the Bush administration can lawfully ignore the "depleted" status of three dolphin populations harmed by tuna fishing, and it has no obligation to abide by the congressional mandate to reduce the deaths of dolphins. In the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, fishermen intentionally net dolphins to catch tuna swimming underneath. That practice has killed 7 million dolphins since the 1950s.
"We will absolutely appeal this flawed decision to the U.S. Court of Appeals and to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary," said William Snape, Defenders' vice president for law and litigation. To read his statement, go to http://www.defenders.org/releases/pr2001/pr1210a01.html
and go to http://www.Savedolphins.org to send a free e-mail to President Bush to demand that tuna sold in the United States remain truly dolphin-safe.
EXPLOSIVE TESTING DOLPHIN TAKE: NMFS has received a request from the U.S. Air Force to take, by harassment, bottlenose dolphins, and spotted dolphins incidental to explosive testing of obstacle and mine clearance systems at Eglin Air Force Base, FL (Eglin). Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), NMFS is requesting comments on its proposal to authorize these takings for a period not to exceed 1 year. From greenlines
AND THE GRIND GOES ON: Conservation groups, lead by Sea Shepherd International are pressuring Denmark and its protectorate the Faroe Islands to end the "outdated, cruel, and unnecessary" killing of pilot whales and other marine mammals in a local hunt called the "grind" says ENN 9/11. Last week, 150 "small whales," not covered by IWC regulations were butchered in what Sea Shepherd describes as " a big party akin to the roman gladiator games." From greenlines
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