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A Tuna Tale
Central and South America. Within this area is the yellowfin tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean (ETP). The ETP yellowfin tuna fishery covers over 8 million square miles of ocean, an ... yellowfin tuna (lightmeat tuna) per year, about 20 to 25% of the world's canned tuna supply. The ETP is the world's largest yellowfin tuna fishery and produces about 30% of the world's yellowfin tuna, ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
Eastern Tropical Pacific tuna fishery. This decision reflects no success at ... fishery if limits are reached; This is a red herring. The new agreement is for dolphins, not tuna catch! The sustainability of the tuna catch has not been in question. Both skipjack and yellowfin tuna ...
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Greenpeace Foundation: Dolphin Alert
In contrast, the Miller substitute (H.R.2856) unfortunately promotes a substantial increase in the waste of immature tuna and other bycatch species, by encouraging shifts to those non-encirclement fishing methods. FACT: See above paragraph. The ETP tuna fishery has low bycatch compared ...
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Bush Reduces Dolphin Protection to Increase Tuna Harvest
Eastern Tropical Pacific could be found beneath schools of dolphin. For years after the discovery, the predominant tuna fishing methods in the region ... tuna fishery has decreased over the years while foreign participation in the fishery has continued to increase. U.S. tuna fishermen no longer set nets on dolphins, and the major U.S. tuna ...
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Office of International Affairs - International Agreements
(IDCP) supported by the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC ) . In the fall of 1992, the nations participating in the ETP tuna fishery convened at the annual meeting of the ... of the MMPA and result in the lifting of embargoes on yellowfin tuna and yellowfin tuna products. Because the multi-nation yellowfin tuna fleet fishes in international waters, NOAA Fisheries has always believed that ...
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National Coalition for Marine Conservation's position statements on current fishery management issues such as longline fisheries, offshore aquaculture, marine protected areas and ecosystem-based management
Marine Protected Areas Ecosystem-based fishery management Offshore Aquaculture SAVING ATLANTIC BLUEFIN TUNA There has been much attention recently to chronic overfishing of bluefin tuna in the eastern Atlantic ... when caught on longlines, and there is a significant bycatch in the Gulf’s yellowfin tuna longline fishery. Closing the Gulf to longlining, where and when the bluefin spawn, would ...
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NCMC Conservation News - NCMC Asks for Habitat Protection for Bluefin Tuna in the Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico as a "habitat area of particular concern" (HAPC) under its Atlantic Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan. ... already prohibit longliners from targeting bluefin in the gulf, but substantial bycatch in the yellowfin tuna longline fisheries still threatens the dwindling spawning population. An HAPC designation under the ...
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Gold Seal - Products - Dolphin-Friendly Canned Tuna
Eastern Tropical Pacific Ocean near Central America and South America. Gold Seal® only imports tuna caught in the Western Pacific Ocean. Second, Gold Seal® neither employs tuna ...
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EJF: What are tuna?
Yellowfin tuna Albacore Rabil Thunnus albacares Blackfin tuna Thon - nageoires noires Atún aleta negra Thunnus atlanticus Bigeye tuna Thon obese Patudo Thunnus obesus Southern bluefin tuna ... tuna fishery: yellowfin (Thunnus albacares), skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamus), bigeye (Th. obesus), albacore (Th. alalunga) and Atlantic bluefin tuna (Th. thynnus). Three of these species, yellowfin, skipjack ...
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The Tuna-Dolphin Controversy
There are also environmental concerns about the effect of "dolphin-safe" fishing on tuna populations because the yellowfin ... nations. That would mark the first time that countries participating in the purse-seine fishery have agreed multi-laterally to legally bind themselves to reducing dolphin mortality, to have ...
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