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Jim Saxton: If we prohibit fishing on dolphins, which we now believe we can do much safer than we used to, then we not only permit…

On the recordJuly 31, 1996
If we prohibit fishing on dolphins, which we now believe we can do much safer than we used to, then we not only permit fishing on log sets and permit fishing on schools, but we encourage those fishermen who would normally be fishing in a safer way on dolphins to go fish on log sets and on schools where we get this higher bycatch.
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Jim Saxton

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Discussing the implications of fishing regulations on dolphin populations and bycatch.

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