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Taiwanese workers transfer yellow fin and skipjack tuna to a refrigerator ship in the Marshall Islands.
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These findings are part of Greenpeace’s research into the area, which will be highlighted during the next leg of the Defending our Oceans ship tour.
The tour takes one of our ships, the Esperanza, throughout the Pacific to highlight the problems of tuna overfishing and pirate fishing.
Chief campaigner on board the Esperanza Lagi Toribau said: “ If we do not want to see Pacific tuna go the same way as Atlantic cod, and Pacific livelihoods destroyed; we need to immediately halve the fishing effort and the amount of tuna being caught, end pirate fishing, and create a network of marine reserves – national parks at sea."
Industrialised nations are moving into areas like the Pacific because they have overfished their own seas. These nation’s boats travel thousands of miles and can take as much in two days as local fishing fleets take in a year.
In the Pacific, foreign fishing fleets from distant countries such as Japan, US, Taiwan, China, Philippines and the EU take 90 percent of the tuna catch.
Pirate fishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is also rife in the region. Pirates give nothing back and leave a trail of environmental destruction.
The tour takes one of our ships, the Esperanza, throughout the Pacific to highlight the problems of tuna overfishing and pirate fishing.
Chief campaigner on board the Esperanza Lagi Toribau said: “ If we do not want to see Pacific tuna go the same way as Atlantic cod, and Pacific livelihoods destroyed; we need to immediately halve the fishing effort and the amount of tuna being caught, end pirate fishing, and create a network of marine reserves – national parks at sea."
Industrialised nations are moving into areas like the Pacific because they have overfished their own seas. These nation’s boats travel thousands of miles and can take as much in two days as local fishing fleets take in a year.
In the Pacific, foreign fishing fleets from distant countries such as Japan, US, Taiwan, China, Philippines and the EU take 90 percent of the tuna catch.
Pirate fishing, illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is also rife in the region. Pirates give nothing back and leave a trail of environmental destruction.
