Tuna: Pacific’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. Many of these vessels have no concern for the environment. Over-fishing and destructive fishing methods now threaten the Pacific’s fragile ocean environment, our important life-line for the tuna fishery and the communities that depend on it.