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Responding to today\u2019s MRAG Asia Pacific report into IUU fishing in the Pacific<\/a>, Greenpeace campaigner Oliver Knowles said:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is daylight robbery, clear and simple. A resource that belongs to the Pacific community is being stripped out by illegal operators, many of them from countries far away from the Pacific.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue belies a serious problem \u2013 that tuna fisheries in the Pacific are not well controlled or policed. On top of the illegal catches, there is also the huge problem of destructive, wasteful and unsustainable fishing that is legal. The two combined are putting huge pressure on Pacific tuna stocks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re serious about protecting tuna fishing in the Pacific governments need to invest more in policing and monitoring fishing to put pressure on the illegal operators.\u00a0 They also need to take strong action to clean up the legal operators by phasing out wasteful operations like purse seining with Fish Aggregation Devices (FADs) and reigning in destructive and exploitative tuna longlining by banning transhipments at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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