Tag: tuna
-
High Demand for Tuna Reduces Numbers to Record Low
The western and central Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest tuna fishery, with millions of people depending on it for food and their livelihoods. It is also an economic lifeline for many of the region’s small island states. Tuna are among the world’s most popular fish and among the most commercially valuable. But because of high…
-
Are There Plenty of Fish in the Sea?
Fish aggregating devices, also knows as FADs, generally refer to artificial structures that are deployed in the ocean to attract schools of fish. FADs function as open-ocean “meeting points” with multiple species gathering underneath them …