Sussex dolphin charity launch new campaign

The group has joined forces with the World Cetacean Alliance to create the ‘Dolphins Aren’t Discard’ campaign.

The campaign spokesperson said, “The campaign is focused on our belief that hundreds of dolphins are killed every year as the result of giant factory ships (95 metres+) Pelagic trawling (mid-water not bottom trawling) waters around the UK.”

Sussex Dolphin Project (SDP) recorded 17 dead cetaceans – the aquatic mammal family consisting of whales/dolphins/porpoise – on local beaches in 2020, during the period that supertrawlers were fishing in the channel off the Sussex coast. This is compared to just two for the rest of the year when there was no supertrawler activity.