Cf. the Paxton Boys: 18th-century Scotch-Irish settlers in the Susquehanna valley, Pennsylvania, who could not care less that the Conestoga/Susquehannock people already dwelled in the land; they wanted that land, and wanted to use it without restriction, including without interference from the Conestoga.  Legally, the Quaker-dominated government in Philadelphia would have tied their hands, and so they simply marched on Philadelphia and threatened a coup.

This is American democracy, capitalism, and the free market: the hideous freedom of those who can, to destroy, and commit all manner of injustice, in the name of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

So long as there is a business interest, a commercial interest, in Hawaii, which would prefer to procede with no care whatsoever about the fate of snagged, drowned dolphins, then we friends of the dolphins will surely have a tough time defending them.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.