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A bigeye tuna lies on the deck of the legal Japanese longliner 'Keisei 
Maru No53' at sea in Micronesian waters, Wednesday 13th September 
2006. Yellow Fin and Big Eye tuna stocks in the Central and Western 
Pacific are destined to be critically overfished within three years if 
the relentless fishing of the two Tuna species continues at current 
rates. Greenpeace are calling for an immediate end to pirate fishing, 
a 50% reduction in the amount of Pacific tuna caught, and a global 
network of Marine Reserves. The Greenpeace vessel 'MY Esperanza' set 
sail from the port of Cebu, Republic of the Philippines on Sunday 3rd 
September 2006 for the Pacific Leg of the Greenpeace 'Defending Our 
Oceans' global expedition.

Bigeye tuna on the deck of a Japanese longliner vessel, 2006.

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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.

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