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Wildlife & Ecology Issues: Discuss Save the dolphins! in the General Diving Forums forums: Just got this via e-mail, apologies if it has been done before! Blanaid Dear All I have just received ...

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Old 11-08-04, 11:36 AM
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Just got this via e-mail, apologies if it has been done before!

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Dear All

I have just received my copy of the Natural World magazine and in it there is an article on dolphin and porpoise deaths dying as 'bycatch' from pelagic bass fisheries and also by inshore gill netters.

Here is the countdown to disaster -

Pre 1987 - An estimated 150,000 common dolphins live in waters off the South West and English Channel

1987-2004 - Pelagic seabass fishery begins. Fast trawlers (mostly French) drown 2000 to 4500 dolphins a year

2001 - Evidence mounts: the deaths may threaten entire populations. Wildlife Trusts and others protest to EU

2002-2004 - Wildlife Trusts gather 50,000 signatures calling for an EU law to end the pelagic fishery

July 2003 - EU scientists draft a proposed regulation to protect sea mammals

MARCH 2004 - EU Fisheries ministers meet and water down the law to leave the pelagic fishery intact

The southwest small population of bottlenose dolphins is declining and last year more than 200 carcases of common dolphins were washed up and scientists believe that this indicates that over 2000 dolphins were killed in the English Channel this year.

What can be done to help?

If you want to please visit Wildlife Trusts
and sign up on the petition now.

The trust are aiming to get 100,000 signatures and plan to present this when member states first report on implementation of the regulation in July 2006.

Please pass this onto your friends and colleagues to see if they would like to add their names to this petition.

Thanks all
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I have signed the petition...every signature counts. I notice that there is 6448 signatures so far so get signing it folks so that they can get the numbers they need.

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Good call Blanaid, if every registered YDer signed the petition we'd increase the current signature total by around 25%!
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negative signatures ?
Just signed the petition, now says "22 have signed so far

Let's try to get it into treble figures.

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This makes me very sad and angry.

I've signed the petition.
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6,454 now...
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6,454 now...
Great, let's keep counting!
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Great, let's keep counting!
6456 now....
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Smile 2 petitions.....
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Just signed the petition, now says "22 have signed so far

Let's try to get it into treble figures.

Bill....
Hi Bill,
there are 2 petitions on the site, the Marine Bill Campaign which has the lower numbers, and Save our Dolphins which has more signatures.

I personally signed both, but I am a water babe!

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