The federal agency charged with protecting marine mammals settled a court case by pledging to finalize and implement protections for false killer whales by November 30, 2012. False killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens, which are actually large dolphins) have suffered unsustainable levels of death and serious injury in the HawaiÊ»i-based longline fisheries. The National Marine Fisheries…
In 2004, under pressure from an Earthjustice lawsuit, the National Marine Fisheries Service finally re-classified the HawaiÊ»i-based longline fishery as “Category 1″—a designation for fisheries that annually kill and seriously harm marine mammals at unstainable rates—due to its excessive incidental take of HawaiÊ»i’s false killer whales. According to the Marine Mammal Protection Act, this recategorization…
Longline fishery killing whales at twice sustainable levels
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