Defending Our Oceans – Pacific Tuna (Philippines: 2006)

An illegal un-named, un-marked and un-flagged fishing trawler with an unidentified, but Papuan-looking crew is at sea above the Philippine Trench passes close by to the Greenpeace vessel 'MY Esperanza' on the second day of the Pacific Leg of the Greenpeace 'Defending Our Oceans' global expedition. Yellow Fin and Big Eye tuna stocks in the Central and Western Pacific are now drastically low due to pirate fishing and the over fishing of stocks by foreign, industrial nations. Local fishermen struggle to compete in these waters as sophisticated fishing equipment puts them out of business. Greenpeace are calling for an immediate end to pirate fishing, a 50% reduction in the amount of Pacific tuna caught, and a global network of Marine Reserves to tackle the problem of over fishing.