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Get your own Free HomePageDear Friend of Dolphins, there is a new manifestation of "The Dolphin Death Bill" that has already been passed by the House and is now being reviewed by the Senate. It is imperative for the welfare of the dolphins that this Bill be rejected.
Last year, do to the efforts of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, grass roots efforts (You and me), and a few Senators, namely Senator Boxer of California, the Dolphin Death Bill was not ratified. However, it has resurfaced as its supporters vowed it would be. It is now known as the "International Dolphin Conservation Act", but do not be taken in by the name, it means the deaths of thousands of dolphins.
Today, the $1 billion U.S. canned tuna market is a dolphin safe market. Consumers know that the dolphin safe label means that dolphins were not chased, harassed, captured, or killed. Under the current law, annual dolphin deaths have declined from 60,000 in 1990 to under 3000 in 1995. Why mess with success? The new bill promotes the chasing and encirclement of dolphins, a tuna fishing practice that is very dangerous and harmful to the dolphins. It does so by gutting the meaning of dolphin safe. Under the new legislation, the dolphin safe label will still be permitted to be used as long as no dolphins are actually seen to be killed, regardless of the method used. The problem is that the one observer per ship cannot possibly observe the nets used, which are over 1.5 miles long. The new bill is a cleverly disguised attempt to lessen the regulations required for Latin American countries to sell tuna to US markets.
DO NOT be deceived by the fact that Greenpeace supports this new bill. Greenpeace is not what it once was; it is a turncoat organization no longer concerned with the welfare of sea mammals; it is a corporate entity out to turn a buck.
- ACT NOW! Contact your Senators and let them know that you do not support the new bill that would mean the death of thousands of dolphins. Remember, they represent us! Reference Bill S.39. when contacting your Senators. Many Senators have e-mail, you can get your Senator's address at the following web site: http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
-If you would like to see Senator Boxer's arguments against the bill go
to the following web site:
http://www.senate.gov/~boxer/ When you get
there , go down about 3/4 of the page and click on the box that
says,"Click to search for Senator Boxer's Senate Floor Speeches" Then
click on Item # 46.
-If you would like to read about the Sea Shepherd investigation and
efforts against the old bill, which is basically the same as the new
one, go to the following web site:
http://www.seashepherd.org/do/dowhtuna.html
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