Does the Canaveral National Seashore have dolphins?
Yes. There is actually a population of dolphin that live only in the Indian River Lagoon. Every single dolphin that lives in the Indian River Lagoon has a different shape of fin. It’s like a fingerprint. We have very sophisticated devices which allow us to take computerized images of the fins and we assign a number to it immediately. There is a continual population of dolphins in the lagoon. You will also sometimes see them in the ocean out here. Are there any particular kinds of dolphins here? Yes. Most of what you will see are Bottlenose Dolphins or Common Dolphins because there are more of them than any of the others. They are the ones you most often see. The type of dolphin you see, depends on your location in the world. How does telling stories about dolphins help to protect them? It raises peoples’ consciousness. Like I said before, when I began talking to people about how they fished for tuna, people were absolutely amazed and almost refused to believe that people would actually
