Over Fishing of Yellow Fin Tuna in the Pacific

1. Over Fishing of Yellow Fin Tuna in the Pacific

2. The Issue Over fishing tuna in the pacific is a major issue. Fishing is where most pacific countries make there money if the supply of tuna were to decrease it would mean a massive decrease in the countries funding. In the long term it would be better to protect the fish now then later if we did it later it would be harder to spawn the fish to fish. If we did it sooner though it would be easier to spawn the fish and there would be much more to fish. The tuna majorly fished in the pacific is yellow fin tuna it if fished because of the price it sells for and it is the easiest tuna to find. The worlds tuna supply

3. As you can see a majority of tuna caught in the worlds oceans are in the pacific oceans that’s why we need to control our pacific fisheries.

4. The Solution The solution is and agreement involving Micronesia, Kiribati, the Marshal islands, Nauru, Paplau, papua New Guinea, Solomon islands, Tuvalu and Japan. The agreement would control the number of tuna caught by purse-seiners in the Pacific by only allowing a certain number of days out at sea. There would also be a fish limit and if a country went over the fish limit then you have to pay a 80 % tax. If a country goes over and over fishes and has to pay the tax the money will go towards more fuel affiant purse-seiners and better training for the work men.