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Canada’s Bluefin Tuna Fishery: Harvesting Methods
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Narrator: The sustainable harvest methods and gear used in the Canadian bluefin tuna fishery are conservation-oriented, based on small scale vessels that are primarily owner-operated and do not exceed 15 meters.
Faith Scattalon: There are provisions that control how it is fished. It’s fished through tended line or rod and reel, which typically is the gear type that has minimum impact in terms of capture of other species.
Troy Atkinson, Industry Representative: We’re catching individual fish. We fish with four lines as a maximum in a directed fishery.
Robert Jamieson, Tuna Fisherman: We’re right to the fish, pretty much, on our quotas and catching them all rod and reel. I mean there’s no damage to any other fish you know, what you catch is what you get: there’s no dead discards, none of that kind of stuff.
Narrator: Canada will continue to advocate internationally for harvesting methods that support the sustainable harvest of bluefin tuna and minimize by-catch of other species. We are leading by example and stand ready to share our expertise with other countries.- END CREDITS -
Thank you to Canada’s bluefin tuna harvesters for playing their role in this sustainable fishery.
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