Solomon Islands dolphin hunts cast spotlight on small cetacean survival

Date:

May 6, 2015

Source:

Oregon State University

Summary:

A new study on the impact of 'drive-hunting' dolphins in the Solomon Islands is casting a spotlight on the increasing vulnerability of small cetaceans around the world. From 1976 to 2013, more than 15,000 dolphins were killed by villagers in Fanalei alone, where a single dolphin tooth can fetch the equivalent of 70 cents -- an increase in value of five times just in the last decade.

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US ambassador to Japan 'deeply concerned' about dolphin drive-hunting

Caroline Kennedy tweets concern about Japanese practice just days after more than 250 dolphins were driven into a cove in Taiji

The US ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, has expressed deep concern about the Japanese tradition of "drive-hunting" dolphins just days after scores of creatures were rounded up for slaughter in a town infamous for culling the mammals.

"Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing,"Kennedy tweeted, adding that the US government "opposes drive hunt fisheries."

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