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 ...

after catching in a week their total allocations for the month long bluefin tuna season. High-tech purse seine fishing boats – whose vast sack-like nets encircle shoals of bluefin tunas as they gather ...

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 ...