Longlines are the most significant threat to these species' survival.

You'll give me the wool's spin, and we'll share the , like the last year?

Subsidies Obscure the True Costs of Longlining

C. Longlining Is Inefficient and Wasteful

You know one of those marionette things. All strings and joints.

The Impact of Industrial Longline Fishing on Marine Biodiversity

Commercial longline fishing is also one of the main threats to albatrosses.

New technologies and increased fishing effort are not necessarily leading to higher profits in the longline fishery.

And I whispered the good news through my broken jaw, which was wired shut, to my night nurse.

There is also the offshore longline pelagic fishery with only one longline vessel in operation.

As we will see, a significant proportion of the U.S. longline fleet has been unprofitable in recent years.

The rate of bycatch in the Atlantic longline fleet, for example, was found to be one half of the total catch.

The preferred methods of fishing were trolling, spear fishing and a combination of trolling and bottom fishing. 12

The Bottom Line An investigation of the Economic, Cultural and Social Costs of Industrial Longline Fishing in the Pacific and the Benefits of Sustainable Use of Marine Protected Areas

Longline swordfishing is often only marginally profitable, if profitable at all.

Implement a moratorium on high seas industrial longline fishing in the Pacific until such time that the species most threatened by longlining are out of danger Amend the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Annex I to include all seven species of sea turtles Support further biological research to identify remaining critical habitat for endangered marine species Convene a UN special investigation of destructive fishing Ban the landing and transhipment of shark fins

Among the major threats to sea turtles are incidental capture and drowning during commercial fishing with gill nets, shrimp nets, trawls, set nets, traps and longline equipment.

Most threatened by industrial longline fishing are leatherback sea turtles which migrate thousands of miles across the Pacific to lay their eggs, feed and reproduce.

The cost of rearing turtles in captivity suggests that conservation of marine turtles in the wild is less expensive. In effect, the necessary cost to recover the critically endangered leatherback sea turtle is equal to one half the global annual revenue earned by longline fishing, the largest threat to its survival.

Seabirds are taken as incidental by catch by pelagic longliners, most notably those targeting tuna and toothfish in the Southern Ocean.102 Albatrosses are particularly vulnerable, as they are long lived and slow breeding.

The impact of high seas longline fishing in the Pacific, which consists of the largest tuna fishery in the world, can be felt throughout our planet.

Reports have documented that longline fishing is one of the main threats to the survival of the highly endangered Black footed albatross in the Pacific.

A representative of a non governmental organization underlined the near extinction of the leatherback turtle as a result of long line fishing in the Pacific and called for a moratorium on that practice.

Longlining threatens the survival of artisanal and subsistence fishing communities, large predatory fish stocks, sea turtles, marine mammals and sea birds to provide seafood that is too dangerous to eat.

quot In terms of current bilateral agreements the fishing vessels of two foreign nations are allowed to deploy a limited number of vessels for tuna longlining within South Africa apos s 200 n.m. fishing zone.

Recalling that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in 1999 adopted international plans of action for the management of fishing capacity, for reducing the incidental catch of seabirds in longline fisheries and for the conservation and management of sharks,

When the industrial longline vessels deplete the local fisheries and move their operations that once provided a payoff to individual nations, local communities are left with the crisis of trying to feed their families and communities from badly damaged marine ecosystems.

Pelagic longline fishing in the Pacific is a highly unselective fishing technique that uses monofilament lines at the shallow surface of the high seas stretching as much as 60 U.S. miles with as many as thousands of baited hooks.

The combination of high subsidies, historically declining catches, high fuel costs and other factors make longlining unsustainable, inefficient and unprofitable to most fishers.