By Edward Carver There’s solid evidence that well-enforced marine protected areas (MPAs) that prohibit fishing benefit a wide ...

Fourteen Pacific island nations will receive $107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes the fish farther from their shores.

Increasing catch levels of yellowfin tuna and the lack of any effective control of fishing effort by management: WWF believes that the Echebastar Indian Ocean purse-seine tuna fishery cannot be yet ...

“Of the four main methods of catching tuna – purse seine, long line, gillnet and pole-and-line – pole-and-line is the only selective method.” Also known as one-by-one fishing, pole-and ...

Tunas are caught by purse seine, long-lines, gillnet, pole & line and handline from coastal waters to high seas. Purse seine tuna fishing vessels will target free school swimming tuna or tuna ...

is collapsing and not lucrative as it was due to current prevailing factors in the tuna industry. This method, he said, is less expensive than purse seine net fishing, which most Ghanaian fishers ...

Rising sea temperatures threaten tuna supplies for Pacific island nations Tuna populations are shifting away from Pacific island nations due to climate change impacts.

TUVALU’S Minister for Natural Resources Development, Sa’aga Talu Teafa has highlighted that the Pacific region comprises 96 ...