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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dolphins are merely a fisherman's convenience. A few feet beneath them swims the real object of the hunt: a huge school of yellowfin tuna, which for reasons that baffle scientists often congregate below pods of dolphins. More than 90% of the yellowfin caught by the U.S. tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they are air breathers, drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...NMFS) enforce existing regulations limiting the number of dolphins that can be killed by tuna fishermen. That would be the most drastic action yet in a continuing campaign by conservationists to save the dolphin. If Greenpeace succeeds in its effort, the San Diego-based American Tunaboat Association estimates, the fleet will lose as much as $35 million in revenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...nets, Congress passed the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which specified that dolphin kills by commercial fishermen were to be reduced in theory to "insignificant levels approaching a zero mortality." Further legislation, passed in 1984, fixed a numerical limit on the dolphins that could be killed by the U.S. tuna fleet: 20,500 dolphins a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: A DEADLY ROUNDUP AT SEA | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

...interim report is expected to help the administration decide what to do about building a replacement for Challenger. The accident left the shuttle fleet with only three vehicles and unable to launch satellites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NASA Fixes Shuttle Problems | 7/15/1986 | See Source »

...best-selling detectors are made by Cincinnati Microwave, whose latest PASSPORT edition is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket and sells for $295. Thanks to his attentive little black boxes, Cincinnati Microwave Chairman and Co-Founder James Jaeger, 38, is a multimillionaire who owns a fleet of Ferraris and says that, of course, he never gets speeding tickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Speeder's Friend, Smokey's Foe | 7/7/1986 | See Source »

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