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Retailers's guide to sustainable and equitable pole and line skipjack

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Fishermen use pole and line fishing method to catch skipjack tuna. Pole and line fishing is a selective and therefore more sustainable way to catch tuna as only fish of a certain size are caught, leaving juveniles to grow to spawning age and replenish the stock in the future. Small bait fish are thrown over the side of the boat to lure the tuna to the water surface. The fishermen use the acceleration of the fish as they race to get their prey, hook them and fling them onto the ship's flat deck.

Fishermen use pole and line fishing method to catch skipjack tuna.

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Skipjack tuna are offloaded from a boat to a cannery to be processed. The fishing method used to catch them is pole and line fishing, a selective and therefore more sustainable way to catch tuna as only fish of a certain size are caught, leaving juveniles to grow to spawning age and replenish the stock in the future.

Skipjack tuna are offloaded from a boat to a cannery to be processed. The fishing method used to catch them is pole and line fishing, a selective and therefore more sustainable way to catch tuna as only fish of a certain size are caught, leaving juveniles to grow to spawning age and replenish the stock in the future.

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Skipjack tuna are sorted at a cannery to be processed. The fishing method used to catch them is pole and line fishing, a selective and therefore more sustainable way to catch tuna as only fish of a certain size are caught, leaving juveniles to grow to spawning age and replenish the stock in the future.

Skipjack tuna are sorted at a cannery to be processed. The fishing method used to catch them is pole and line fishing, a selective and therefore more sustainable way to catch tuna as only fish of a certain size are caught, leaving juveniles to grow to spawning age and replenish the stock in the future.

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Cans of tuna containing pole and line caught tuna.

Cans of tuna containing pole and line caught tuna.

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Cans of tuna containing pole and line caught tuna.

Cans of tuna containing pole and line caught tuna.

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By the end of the year, Greenpeace will pass the contact details and information on to suitable partners in tuna-rich coastal states interested in developing a sustainable and equitable pole and line skipjack industry. Coastal state partners will be encouraged to get in touch with companies that have signed up to this petition.

Note: Greenpeace will not make your contact information or declaration of intentions public without your company's official consent. If you answered “yes” to the question “Can Greenpeace contact you/your company about possible publicity of your intentions?”, we might contact your company in the future asking for this permission for a specific activity.

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