On the recordJuly 31, 1996
Basically, encirclement the way we did it in the past was bad. We had an embargo, we ended it, we reduced the dolphin kills from 100,000 a year down to under 4,000 a year. That is what we are trying to do here. Log sets. Tuna, for some strange reason, will swim under something. If they do not swim under dolphins like mature tuna fish do, they will swim under logs. Now, we have a lot of immature tuna that swim under logs. We do not have any dolphins there, but when they encircle the tuna and catch them in these big nets, not only do they catch tuna fish, but what we see in these pictures here is they catch many more marine species. These species are under stress because they are being discarded. They are not being used.
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