■ Environmental Special - There Are No Tuna in the South Pacific

In the Solomon Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, and other regions where schools of tuna once formed a spectacular sight, people in the Southwest Pacific simply enjoyed the abundance of the Pacific by catching tuna with single-line fishing. However, since the early 2000s, advanced deep-sea fishing vessels equipped with state-of-the-art fish finders, fish aggregators, massive nets, and cold storage facilities have been catching tuna indiscriminately.

Now, Pacific fishermen must travel four to five hours out on motorized boats to catch tuna. Even then, what they can obtain are only the small ones left behind after the deep-sea fishing vessels have completely wiped them out. Pacific fishermen, who once supported their families and enjoyed tribal festivals with tuna, no longer have a way to obtain fresh fish. Instead, they bring vegetables and fruits to deep-sea fishing vessels docked in ports and exchange them for tuna scraps with broken bones. Once a kingdom of tuna, they have now fallen into the fate of having to beg for tuna from deep-sea fishing vessels.

※ This video is [Environmental Special - There Are No Tuna in the South Pacific], aired on March 27, 2012.

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