Word: dolphined
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...
...issue are amendments to the 1972 act, which forbade imports of tuna caught using nets to encircle dolphins that for unexplained reasons swim together with tuna in parts of the Pacific. Before the act, this method suffocated as many as 500,000 of the marine mammals each year. After 1972, American fishermen drastically reduced their dolphin kill, but in the 1980s the number of dolphins killed by foreign boats rose dramatically...
Mexico promptly filed an international trade complaint. But it also took steps to reduce dolphin deaths, and by 1995 the number of dolphins killed by tuna fishermen annually had dropped below 5,000 worldwide--demonstrating, Mexicans assert, that fishing boats can encircle dolphins without killing the animals. The U.S. and a coalition of green groups met with Latin nations in Panama last October to hammer out new guidelines for environmentally sound tuna fishing. Their declaration permits encirclement so long as onboard observers certify that no dolphin drowned during the netting operation, and its provisions became the basis for a bill...
DAVIE, FLORIDA: After a 33 year career as an NFL head coach in which he won 347 games, more than anyone else in league history, Don Shula will step down as head coach of the Miami Dolphins. In 26 seasons as the Dolphins head man, Shula won two Super Bowls, and lead his 17-0 1972 team to the only undefeated NFL season ever completed. But with no league championships in the last 22 years, Dolphin fans had grown increasingly impatient and called for Shula's ouster. "Everyone in South Florida, the media and the fans, say that...
...DOLPHINS Tuna-fishing countries will limit inadvertent dolphin kills to a friendlier...