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

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  The Petition
  
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  The leaflet
  

Find out more

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