TUNA is becoming scarce in the world and a meeting which has been sheltered and put on the back burner because of the climate change summit will now determine our tuna’s future.

The Western Central Pacific is the last remaining healthy fishery in the world and the source of over half the world’s tuna. Yellowfin and bigeye tuna have been in constant decline since 2001 – both are now in an overfished state.

This is taking place in Tahiti.

On the negotiatiing table according to Greenpeace are issues such as closing the high seas pockets to all. In 2008, two of our the four nets were closed for net fishing. Now Pacific Islands which includes Australia, are calling for the other two to be closed.

Another one is to halve the fishing of the threatened big eye tuna and to ban deadly fishing magnets.

Greenpeace want fish aggregation devices to be fully banned after discovering that it wasn’t fully banned despite the rule coming in in 2008.