The recent nationwide airing of a video showing Brazilian fishermen hauling in and joking about 83 dolphins that had drowned in their nets has forced environmental authorities here to speed implementation of tough gillnet fishing restrictions. The video was made by a consultant hired by Ibama, Brazil’s environmental-enforcement agency, to gauge the impact of gillnet fishing on certain fish species that did not include dolphins. The consultant, whose identity has not been made public, shot the footage while collecting this data aboard a fishing vessel off the northeastern state of Amapá—near where the Amazon River flows into the Atlantic Ocean. He turned the video over to Ibama. Brazil’s TV Globo broadcast some of the footage last month, declining to say how it obtained... [Log in to read more]