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Greenpeace volunteers in the Channel today (8am 15th March 2005) stopped two French boats from pair trawling for sea bass in UK waters - to stop them from killing dolphins in their nets. An hour later (9am) Greenpeace found three dead dolphins with their stomachs cut wide open floating in the sea. The volunteers retrieved the dead animals, whose stomachs are likely to have been slit in an effort to make them sink, onto the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, for documentation.

Greenpeace swimmers in the Channel today attempted to prevent dolphins being caught and drowned in fishing nets by placing themselves in the path of two boats dragging a huge net between them.

The UK boats Ocean Star and Ocean Crest are part of the sea bass pair trawling fleet which is estimated to kill thousands of dolphins in the Channel every year.

05-10-2004 Greenpeace today warned that the world's largest mountain range, which lies under the sea, and the multitude of wildlife it supports, including giant squid, is being destroyed by destructive fishing practices.

The mountain range, which is made of many underwater mountains, or 'seamounts', stretches from Iceland to the Azores and is threatened by bottom trawling, a method of fishing that ploughs up the ocean floor.