Dolphin advert misleading – SeaFIC

The seafood industry supports and endorses the Marine Mammal Operating Procedure, which minimises accidental capture of dolphins during trawl fishing, the New Zealand Seafood Industry Council's chief executive Owen Symmans said in March. The reaffirmation came after it was confirmed that a number of common dolphins were accidentally caught by trawl fishing in December. “Nobody wants to catch dolphins, common or otherwise, and fishermen generally avoid this type of incident. Fishermen feel gutted about this sort of thing. It's the last thing that they want in their nets,” Mr Symmans said. Common dolphins, an abundant species but precise population estimates are largely unknown, may form enormous schools of several thousand individuals.

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