How France Exterminates its Dolphins
Sea Shepherd launches Operation Dolphin By-Catch to alert the public about the fate of dolphins along the French coastFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 27, 2018 From January through March an average of 6,000 dolphins are killed each year on France’s west coast by large industrial trawlers and vessels fishing in pairs (nets dragged between two trawlers). That number could be as high as 10,000 according to the Pelagis Observatory, based in La Rochelle. That’s more than the number of dolphins killed each year in the Danish Faroe Islands and The Cove in Taiji, Japan, combined. These