Brazil: Fishermen killed 83 dolphins and joked about it - AP

Source: Associated Press

updated 11:53 a.m. EDT, Tue July 17, 2007

Brazil: Fishermen killed 83 dolphins and joked about it

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SAO PAULO, Brazil (AP) -- A crew of Brazilian fishermen
was captured on video killing 83 dolphins and joking about
their illegal haul, Brazil's Ibama environmental protection
agency said Tuesday.

The video obtained by an Ibama researcher and broadcast
by Globo TV showed the fishermen netting the dolphins,
which suffocated because they could not surface to breathe.

The researcher was contracted by the agency and sent
undercover aboard the fishing boat to monitor hauls of other
fish. The dolphin kill was filmed while the boat was off the
coast of Amapa state, near the point where the Amazon
River flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

As the dolphins were hauled from the sea and piled on the
boat's deck, fishermen on board laughed after someone
said, "Everyone's going to jail after this filming!"

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