The more people who demand truly sustainable seafood from their retailers, the more incentive and pressure there is on industrial fisheries to provide sustainably caught fish.
Fishing may be an ancient tradition but sophisticated technology and a global boom in the industry have outstripped nature’s ability to replenish the seas.
So much tuna is stolen from Pacific nations that two key species will face commercial extinction by 2009. This five-minute audio report tells how the Greenpeace ship, Esperanza, is confronting pirate fishers in the Pacific in 2006.
Traditional fishers in the Marshall Islands are being overtaken by large, foreign, industrial fleets. Large foreign fishing fleets take close to two million tonnes of Pacific fish each year. The following slideshow features images from the the fishing practices in this region.
