Pacific Tuna - Under Threat

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Pacific Big Eye and Yellowfin tuna are overfished by non-Pacific fishers and are now seriously threatened.

Each year in the Pacific

• Foreign countries catch over 90% of tuna in the Pacific.
• This has a value of US $3 billion a year.
• Only $0.15 billion of this stays in Pacific mostly through processing.
• High tech large ships can catch as much fish in two days as a small Pacific nation can in a year.

What can we do?

Metiria and Keith are currently running a campaign to pressure the New Zealand Government to actively support and enable Pacific Island Nations. A copy of the petition can be downloaded from: www.greens.org.nz/conservation/tunapetition

Resources

• The Petition
• The leaflet 

Find out more

• Read Metiria's Press Release
• On frogblog
• Tuna on wikipedia
• Pacific Tuna in the Media:
  • google news search
  • Fears Pacific tuna stocks in trouble - TVNZ
  • Snapper, hoki, tuna on the don't-eat list - NZHerald
  • NZ Greens to push government to protect Pacific tuna fishery - RNZ International
  • Tuna catch drops, experts differ on why
  • Dolphin-Safe But Not Ocean-Safe
  • An article on the management of Pacific Fisheries (Currents 10, August 2008)
• Check out the Greenpeace campaign for marine reserves in the Pacific:
  • page
  • proposal
  • and report into pirate fishing