Tuna- Pacfic's most valuable asset

The Pacific has one of the Earth’s most abundant fisheries; more than half the world’s tuna is fished here. However as more and more fisheries around the world collapse, the Pacific is attracting increasing numbers of foreign industrial fishing vessels to gain access to it’s waters as well as those who fish without a license the pirate fishers. Pacific Island governments need to realise that the key to increasing income from their tuna fisheries in the long term, is to cut the fishing effort in the short term. This is also how they will preserve the valuable tuna resource for future generations. Many of these vessels have no concern for the environment.

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