Blogposts tagged 'Pair Trawling'

Bringing cookies to pair trawlers

Posted by Ludvig - 27 April 2007 at 11:57am - 0 Comments

Follow the crew of the Arctic Sunrise on their campaign for Marine Reserves in our North Sea Tour blog

Things can really turn around fast on the ship. Last night, just as I posted yesterday's blog entry, we came across a pair of interesting looking ships trawling together for cod and immediately launched a boat to investigate.

Article tagged as: cod, marine reserves, north sea, oceans, pair trawling

Double dead dolphin delivery

Posted by darren - 31 March 2005 at 1:46pm - 0 Comments

A dead dolphin is delivered to the French Embassy in London

We've just delivered dead dolphins bearing the scars of a final struggle in fishing nets simultaneously to French government offices in London and Paris.

Greenpeace is calling for a total ban on pair trawling, which kills thousands of dolphins in the English Channel every year. France has the largest bass pair trawling fleet in Europe but has failed to take action to stop these needless deaths.

Article tagged as: bycatch, cetaceans, dolphins, pair trawling

Buoys halt trawlers

Posted by darren - 9 March 2005 at 12:59pm - 3 Comments

Trawler crew remove a Greenpeace buoy from their net

Our activists have just attempted to halt two UK dolphin-killing pair trawlers - the Ocean Dawn and the Sunrise - from fishing by attaching large buoys to their net.

Pair trawlers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of dolphins in the Channel every year. The dolphins are caught and drowned in the huge net dragged between two vessels.

Article tagged as: dolphins, esperanza, oceans, pair trawling

Dead dolphin found

Posted by darren - 22 February 2005 at 4:49pm - 0 Comments

Dead dolphin found by our ship, MV Esperanza

We've just found a dead dolphin bearing the tell tale signs of being killed in a large fishing net, floating 18 miles south of Plymouth.

Observers onboard our ship, MY Esperanza, spotted the dolphin at 9.10am and, after battling gale force winds, were eventually able to bring the dolphin onboard.

Article tagged as: bycatch, cetaceans, dolphins, pair trawling

Esperanza sets sail to protect dolphins

Posted by darren - 17 February 2005 at 6:20pm - 0 Comments

MV Esperanze sets sail

Our ship, the MY Esperanza, has just set sail from Falmouth to investigate dolphin deaths in the English Channel.

Every year hundreds of dolphins are killed by pair trawlers and other destructive fishing - their corpses are washing up on beaches in south west England right now.

Article tagged as: cetaceans, dolphins, esperanza, oceans, pair trawling, sea bass

Government in the dock over dolphin deaths

Posted by darren - 10 February 2005 at 6:30pm - 0 Comments

Dead Dolphin in the Channel

We've just launched a legal challenge against the government to help save dolphins from being caught and killed in large fishing nets.

Our legal team has filed papers in the High Court seeking a ban on all fishing boats from pair trawling for sea bass within 200 miles of the UK. This type of fishing involves two boats dragging a huge net between them. Last year, government observers witnessed UK pair trawlers catching and killing 169 dolphins.

Article tagged as: bycatch, cetaceans, dolphins, pair trawling
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