More than 1,500 UK readers saw nine versions of a dolphin bycatch story and support for fishery rules rose when consumers shared responsibility with industry, even though readers’ own seafood plans barely changed
The striking result in this Conservation Biology study is that the same conservation problem moved public policy attitudes more easily than personal dinner plans. Researchers asked 1,548 people in the United Kingdom to read one of nine short stories about dolphin bycatch, the accidental capture of dolphins in fishing gear, then measured support for fishery…
