My role during this second year of our work on cetacean bycatch is to deliver our campaign to the politicians back on land. There's lots happening at sea – but it's easy for politicians to feel distant from the problem.

That's why this morning we delivered two of the dead common dolphins recovered by the team on the Esperanza to the French Embassy in London. The dolphins were delivered in a special refrigerated vehicle and placed on the steps of the embassy right in the middle of Knightsbridge. A lot of our work on this campaign has focused on the UK government, but we should not forget that the French sea bass pair trawling fleet is much larger than the UK's and therefore responsible for more dolphin deaths. Today we gave the French government a loud wake-up call – ban pair trawling for sea bass!

At 8.45am our team of active supporters swung into action to lift the two dead dolphins out of the delivery vehicle and put them into place on the front entrance to the embassy, right beneath the enormous tricolour hanging on the buildings façade.

View a slideshow of our dolphin delivery.

It was then my role to hand in a letter to the embassy addressed to the French Fisheries Minister, asking him to ban this fishery in order to protect cetaceans. We've handed the dolphins over to the French government – the problem of bycatch is theirs to clean up.

This is really exciting campaigning. Our unique ability to work at sea means that we can bring the real evidence of the harm done by destructive fishing direct to politicians. This makes the problem their own. It’s also really effective international campaigning – our action today helps the oceans campaigners at Greenpeace France, who are also working on this issue, to really increase the pressure on their government. At long last this issue is starting to make the public and political agenda on both sides of the Channel.

The problem of cetacean bycatch in the sea bass pair trawl fishery is not going to be resolved until this type of fishing is banned. The politicians with the power to act can stop the killing, but until they act we'll be there to remind them again and again of the destruction taking place in the English Channel.

Olly, Campaigner

i am disgusted about what people are doing to the environment and everything in it

I am disgusted with what i have read about this incident with the dolphins. I am glad greenpeace will help to stop other cruel killing to dolphins and other creatures. I think the goverment should do something to stop this, if they lead our country we need their support to stamp down on whaling and the killing and destroyin of the earth. If there is any more newson how it is being dealt with i would be grateful if i am kept informed.

yours sincerly
Georgia Commons

Well done, friends! I hope the French Embassy will use "la valise diplomatique" for secretly sending those two dead dolphins to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at Paris, because the French government must now see with its own eyes the bycatch evidence related to the French pelagic trawlers - keep on the campaign, strong and efficient!