Silly Little Country

'Dolphin-Safe' Tuna? What About 'Tuna-Safe' Tuna?

I have never understood the hand-wringing over dolphin bycatch; I do understand and care about the general bycatch problem, but for Pete's sake, should the tuna not get the same compassion?
It turns out that dolphin-safe is pretty unsafe for any gazillions of other creatures.
Southern Fried Science explain the disastrous results of selective compassion.

If you work out the math on this (and you don’t have to, because the environmental justice foundation did) , you find that 1 dolphin saved costs 382 mahi-mahi, 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 27 sharks, and almost 1,200 small fish.

A fair response would be, "Leave the tuna alone, too!", but even I am not likely to go there. The tuna don't care much about smaller fish. :-)
What's your trade-off?

posted by Alan Adamson @ 4:54 PM