cc wrote:

> "Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message
>
> > Dolphins should be smart enough to avoid fishermen with their boats,
> > noisemakers and nets,
>
> That's why it's hard to believe the 5 (or 6 ?) guys with 1 old water-ski
> boat  got all those dolphins you see in the photo in one catch.

You can tell by the blood in the water that it didn't happen all at once, and
it hardly looks like a lot of dolphins. Fishermen in Taiji were reported
saying they only caught 60 or so, so far this year, but Japan allows 22,000
per year, in ten locations. Before the quota, they've caught more than 40,000
in a year. So Japanese fishermen get a lot somehow, no matter how difficult it
may be.

Dolphin survivors should know enough to avoid Japanese shores and tuna boats,
the way some whales allegedly avoid ships which remind them of whaling
vessels.

And when fishermen get lucky, they are damned lucky. I know a man who caught
96 sea bream alive in a single day, by himself, with a fishing pole off his
boat at his secret fishing spot. I've also seen how a lone elderly fisherman
on the Seto Inland Sea sets out his line of hooks, and hauled it in later to
find one or two hundred sea bream, nearly every hook with a catch. How people
can target their catch so precisely is beyond me.

> In all the
> videos I have seen, they were much more equipped for fewer catches...and I
> see the fishers of the area using better boats to get 1 or 2 hamachi.
> Or that really means idiot dolphins are as numerous as jelly fish around
> Japanese coasts...Well, I've eaten both, and contaminated or not, I
> definitely prefer dolphin.
>
> >They should be able to avoid purse nets by jumping, too.
>
> That is harder with certain types of nets for deep sea fishing. They cover
> completely a huge space of water. They'd trap a submarine.

Submarines don't jump. I've seen some footage of trapped dolphins. They should
have jumped before the nets were closed or hauled.

> I've heard scientists say the most intelligent animals are pigs, and well,
> they are not hard to catch (I'd call mine and they'd rush on me to sniff my
> hands and pockets to check I was not hiding cookies or sweets).
>
> CC