Fourteen Pacific Island countries will receive a grant of NZD $187 million (US$107m) from the UN-based Green Climate Fund to help safeguard their tuna fisheries against the expected impacts of climate ...

Tuna species account for 20 percent of the value ... catching the squid bait he needs to attract tuna. His small-scale Indonesian tuna fishery became the first in the country to hold Fairtrade ...

Tuna is a widely eaten species of fish. However ... introducing it into the food chain. Small fish consume or absorb the methylmercury and are eaten by larger fish. Instead of breaking down ...

It is increasingly obvious that too many boats are chasing fewer and fewer fish. Damaging fishing practices and unsustainable fishing equipment are putting tuna species at risk, and ultimately ...

on its “Red List” of imperiled species. The Pacific bluefin tuna is not yet listed, but overfishing is now occurring, according to the National Marine Fisheries Service. Sadly, bluefin remains on the ...

Failure to do this, or changes in the current plan, could threaten the recovery of tuna species. This year the debate is expected to be strongly influenced by the ongoing criminal investigation of the ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists both the Atlantic and the southern bluefin tuna as endangered or critically endangered on its “Red List” of imperiled species. The Pacific ...