As per the information revealed by WWF vital tuna species are under threat from overfishing in Asia’s diverse Coral Triange region. The organization demand a stringent measure stave off collapse. According to WWF tuna species in the triangle, including heavily overfished bluefin and bigeye tuna, are under increasing pressure as fleets move in from depleted fishing grounds in other parts of the world.
WWF researcher Lida Pet Soede said that the Coral Triangle — which is bounded by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and East Timor — contains spawning and nursery grounds as well as migratory routes for up to 89 percent of the world’s tuna catch. Soede also informed that the larger context of the Coral Triangle, where there still are very important spawning grounds for a number of very valuable tuna species is critical.
It is obvious if Spain, Japan and other countries close down bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean then there will be more fishing ships will move into the triangle. Soede admits that regional collaboration around management of this global commodity is pretty obvious. If you can’t agree on managing this commodity together, everybody is going to get hurt.
Coral Triangle nations, fishing companies and WWF are meeting in the Indonesian capital until Thursday to discuss ways of curbing overfishing in the area. The discussion would include the creation of a carbon-trading style system to pay countries with large spawning grounds such as Indonesia in return for reducing fishing of tuna, says Soede.
