Category: Tuna

No Going Back

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Tuna

The National Marine Fisheries Service is questioning whether long-standing measures to minimize longline bycatch, such as time-area closures, are still needed.  The answer is most emphatically yes. No Going Back by Ken Hinman July 2018 The first meaningful action taken to reduce bycatch in the U.S. pelagic longline fisheries occurred ...

The Pacific Bluefin: Down But Not Out – Yet

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Tuna, Big Fish

With ESA Listing Denied, Attention Shifts Back to International Management Bodies   by Ken Hinman The U.S. government earlier this month denied a petition to list Pacific bluefin tuna under the Endangered Species Act, citing recent international actions that may have stabilized the population and could, if continued, put bluefin ...

Got Tuna?

Author: Theresa Labriola Posted Under: Blog, Tuna, Big Fish

TWO WAYS TO HELP SCIENTISTS STUDY PACIFIC TUNA by Theresa Labriola Anglers can help NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center (SWFSC or Center) with their research of Pacific Bluefin Tuna and Pacific Albacore. Here’s how. In recent years, Pacific bluefin tuna bigger than 150 pounds have schooled off of California. This year, ...

“End the Wasteful Bycatch of Bluefin”, Public Tells NMFS

Author: Ken Hinman Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Tuna

Fishermen and Conservationists Call on NMFS to Enact Tough New Rules to Limit Indiscriminate Longlines The people have spoken.  On January 10, 2014, the public comment period on new measures to reduce the number of Atlantic bluefin tuna hooked and killed by pelagic longliners came to an end.  By all accounts, thousands of ...

Support Measures to Limit Longlining to Protect Bluefin Tuna and Other Big Fish

Author: Wild Ocean Team Posted Under: Blog, Sustainable Fishing Practices, Tuna

The National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed new measures to protect one of the ocean’s most threatened species of fish, the Atlantic bluefin tuna, from one of the most lethally indiscriminate types of fishing gear, the pelagic longline.  Longliners fishing for swordfish and yellowfin tuna typically hang hundreds of hooks ...