http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/ Greenpeace is investigating dolphin deaths in the English Channel. Follow our ship's progress as we take action to defend ocean life... en-us 2005-03-29T11:21:34+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002266.html We are now in Portland, Dorset - which means the end of our time at sea searching for dolphins and trawlers. It's always with a bit of sadness that I approach the end of these trips. The question in... Oceans team 2005-03-29T11:21:34+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002248.html My name is Kurt Jackson and I'm an artist based in Cornwall - landscape and seascape. I paint the environment and the people that live and work in it and try to cover cultural issues, environmental issues, political ideals... Oceans team 2005-03-29T09:02:14+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002250.html While the Esperanza is in the English Channel - our most famous ship, the Rainbow Warrior is currently doing a tour around Korea. The focus of campaigning there is whales - and particularly the critically endangered population of gray... Oceans team 2005-03-28T11:01:47+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002246.html I'm one of the volunteer activists onboard the Esperanza and I have been given the job of wearing a helmet-mounted video camera during actions. I used a helmet cam last year, which was a cobbled together arrangement to try... Oceans team 2005-03-27T12:34:08+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002253.html Hello - it's Francois, the French campaigner onboard the Esperanza. As today is quiet - we've found no trawlers so far - I thought I could write a little update on the French side of the campaign. This year... Oceans team 2005-03-26T09:49:29+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002252.html A quiet day today. We're out scanning the seas for pair trawlers, but so far nothing on the radar. So I thought I'd write a blog about another aspect of the pair trawl sea bass fishery - aside from... Oceans team 2005-03-25T13:38:26+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002249.html In response to our depositing dead dolphins on Defra's doorstep (yes, I know there's a lot of Ds in there) Ben Bradshaw, the Minister for Nature Conservation and Fisheries, seemed to get a bit annoyed. So annoyed in fact... Oceans team 2005-03-24T15:07:08+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002245.html I am in the action boat. As we fight the swell with biting, salty wind stinging our eyes, I glance around at the other people on my boat; colleagues, friends, people from different countries, different religions and cultures, here... Oceans team 2005-03-23T12:02:52+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002227.html We've just delivered three dead dolphins to the UK ministry responsible for their deaths. We found these three dolphins at sea - all bearing the telltale marks of death by fishing net. Ben Bradshaw is the Nature Conservation and... Oceans team 2005-03-23T10:15:58+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002216.html Hi - I'm Chris, volunteer. Now I'm a relative new comer to the world of knots. I've had two years of learning knots for climbing. But now I'm on the Esperanza I'm getting into new realms: the four dimensions... Oceans team 2005-03-22T12:25:33+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002205.html When we started talking about the first dolphin bycatch campaign last year it was decided very quickly that we needed plenty of background images of wild dolphins - specifically common dolphins in European waters. While we regularly see dolphins... Oceans team 2005-03-21T12:40:55+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002204.html On Tuesday we retrieved three dead common dolphins from an area where the French pair trawl fleet had earlier been operating. There were two juvenile male dolphins and one female - all had their bellies slit open and viscera... Oceans team 2005-03-21T11:21:17+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002190.html 'Largest indigenous seabird of North Atlantic; long neck and wedge-shaped tail impart distinctive jizz.' Whatever 'jizz' is?! I just looked up gannets in the book - Seabirds of the World - as I know very little about birds and... Oceans team 2005-03-20T08:44:53+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002185.html On the top deck of the Esperanza we have a large freezer storage facility. At present it holds four dead common dolphins, all of which bear the telltale signs of being killed in fishing nets. The three dolphins that... Oceans team 2005-03-19T08:29:08+00:00 http://weblog.greenpeace.org/dolphintour/archives/002191.html 6am Saturday and again I am on the bridge. Over night our search continued and we have trawlers on the radar again. The green smudges with twin trails are the telltale signs we look for on the radar. Usually the... Oceans team 2005-03-19T06:37:08+00:00