The International Whaling Commission's scientific committee, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, and the Society for Marine Mammology with 2,000 scientists, have all called for greater protections for Maui's dolphin. But the National Government has largely ignored their scientific advice. In 2012, the Government convened an expert panel of domestic and international dolphin experts who estimated that five Maui's dolphins were dying in New Zealand fishing nets each year. 3
in favour of protectionism, for example tariffs, export subsidies