UK: The vital role small-scale tuna fisheries play

The vital role small-scale tuna fisheries play in local distribution of wealth, sustainable development, and ensuring global food security. Throughout coastal communities all over the globe, hundreds of small-scale fisheries are hard at work every day using ancient and traditional fishing methods to catch tuna, one fish at a time. These fisheries, which are small-scale in the size of their operations and their current market reach, produce some of the most responsibly caught and sustainable tuna in the world. They practise ‘one-by-one fishing’, a technique that uses one hook and one line to catch one tuna at a time and has wide-ranging environmental, social, and economic benefits. The UK-based charity International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) works with these types of tuna fisheries specifically all over the world, representing thousands of small-scale fishers. The one-by-one fisheries bring income and recirculate wealth among coastal communities whose local economies depend ...