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bb TUI IX)1 I’lllNS AKI. It^htinp up through the mesh I'hcy re unable lo breathe. They’re drowning. Now a crew member throws explosives to scare the dolphins toward the tar end ol the net This plan backfires. Panicked by the explosives, the dolphins pile up m the net next to the ship, churning the water white. You can hear them crying out... "The captain loses patience and commands the operation to continue, even though there arc hundreds ot animals still in the net. Dolphins ate tangled in the webbing, hoisted twisting into the blue sky and dragged through the crushing maw of the power block. "The skitf returns and the remaining floats are draped between the two boats, toimmg a deep bag. Mixed in with a hundred dead or dyihg dolphins is our catch ol ten or twelve tuna. The crew is joking as they cast the stunned, dead and wounded dolphins adrift m the sea." This eyewitness report from an l-.arth Island Institute-sponsored biologist who shipped undercover alxiard a Latin Amesk.in tuna boat this year ioniums our worst tears. I he slaughter of dolphins along the I’acilie coast J'he dot.umeni.irv evidence reported on CHS and ABC news, shows that between 7S.(HK) and lSi.tHHJdolphins are massacred cash year b\ I S aiul foreign tuna tleets It s Tin- Lakolst Kill oi- Marini Mammals in i hi World Today.
Star-hist Lven the olfic ials paid tii piotect the dolphins admit the lislung fleets are netting doiphms on purpose. Corporate promises and official reassurances are. it turns out. worth nothing. But you, as an individual, can stop the slaughter of the dolphins. Tirsl. stop busing all canned tuna. The dolphins die in the hunt lor yellow fin. the most common canned tuna on llic shelves. Boycotting all kinds will .send the big ■ companies a message they can’t ignore Second, mail the coupon to Larth Island. We'll forward the top half to Capitol Hill And your contribution will rin-yc ah' rhe nioxi i oninion kind.i <*/t aimed tuna you'll %ec oil I’"* n v i/ir/i'ff You max also \ee "house hraiulx"ami higher-' prii i'll hoiuio and allhit ore keep if simple Hoyt oil them all
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