Purse Seines: Dolphins

To catch tuna, fishers commonly track pods of dolphins, who swim with large tuna, and drop a net into the water to surround the schooling tuna. The edges of the net are slowly cinched together, trapping hundreds of tuna. The net is then drawn up and closed like a laundry bag. Purse seining for tuna has aroused public outrage because dolphins are sometimes caught in the nets. However, purse seines also kill millions of tuna, intelligent animals who are just as capable of feeling pain as dolphins are. In addition to the hundreds of fish below the surface, a pod of dolphins is struggling to escape from this net.