Solomon Islands to promote wild dolphin exports

Up to 100 live bottlenose dolphins can be exported from the Solomon Islands every year, and the government is encouraging residents to enter into the lucrative trade, the fisheries minister said today.

Live dolphin exports can resume as soon as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, or CITES, approves the move, Fisheries Minister Nollen Leni said. The Solomons suspended live dolphin exports in 2003.