Increasing catch levels of yellowfin tuna and the lack of any effective control of fishing effort by management: WWF believes that the Echebastar Indian Ocean purse-seine tuna fishery cannot be yet ...

Purse seine nets can stretch up to a mile wide ... consumer confidence that dolphins are truly not being harmed during tuna fishing. Furthermore, whales, sea turtles, seals, birds, sharks, and ...

Tunas are caught by purse seine, long-lines, gillnet, pole & line and handline from coastal waters to high seas. Purse seine tuna fishing vessels will target free school swimming tuna or tuna ...

“Of the four main methods of catching tuna – purse seine, long line, gillnet and pole-and-line – pole-and-line is the only selective method.” Also known as one-by-one fishing, pole-and ...

The Australian Marine Conservation Society has ranked the country’s tuna brands according to sustainability criteria, grading them on a red, amber, or green scale ...

The majority of Australian canned tuna does not pass the sustainability pub test, research from a marine conservation group shows.

No control of fishing, increasing number of boats and the number of fish dwindling: WWF believes that the Echebastar Indian Ocean purse-seine tuna fishery cannot be certified to the Marine Stewardship ...