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...first hint that something was wrong came in August, when dead dolphins -- victims of pneumonia and liver damage -- began washing up on Mediterranean beaches near Valencia, Spain. But until the past few weeks, no one had | realized the extent of the disaster. When scientists from European countries began comparing notes, it suddenly became clear that some sort of epidemic was raging through the striped dolphin population of the western Mediterranean Sea. In France, where dead dolphins usually wash ashore at a rate of about 50 a year, 50 were discovered in a two-week period, and the toll in Spain...
...first glance, the proposed swap seemed merely a mutual convenience. The New England Aquarium in Boston would give the Naval Ocean Systems Center in San Diego an overly rambunctious 450-lb. male dolphin named Rainbow and in return get a mild-mannered female that is hard of hearing and is thus disqualified for experiments in hearing capability and acoustic response to underwater sounds. When animal lovers heard about it, however, they mounted a fierce protest. First, a coalition picketed the aquarium then last week Citizens to End Animal Suffering and Exploitation filed a federal lawsuit to block the trade...
Protesters argue that dolphins should not be used by the military in the first place and claim that many are abused when the Navy teaches them to fight and to kill people with snout-mounted .45-cal. guns. Said Richard O'Barry, dolphin trainer for the 1960s television series Flipper and now an opponent of all captivity for the endearing mammals: "We capture them, we use them, we abuse them, then we dump them." Although dolphin expert Joseph Geraci of the University of Guelph in Ontario reported finding no signs that the San Diego center mistreats the creatures, the aquarium...
...acquired. Says Theodore Roberts, chairman of Talman, which is the largest thrift in Illinois: "Our market values have been declining because of the turmoil that's been created in the S&L industry, and now we're told to go out and raise more capital. You've caught the dolphin in the tuna net here...
...tuna company will put a DOLPHIN SAFE logo on its cans, and may have to charge "a couple cents more" to account for higher costs, O'Reilly said. The dolphin-free promise was matched on the same day by the two other major canners, Bumble Bee Seafoods and Van Camp Seafood, which sells Chicken of the Sea brand. Environmentalists responded with glee. "It was an incredibly wise and incredibly responsible action," said Senator Joseph Biden Jr. of Delaware, who is a co-sponsor of a dolphin-protection bill. But August Felando of the American Tunaboat Association contended that the action...