Web Features

Beginning with a network of 23 leading progressive seafood companies and extending to Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)-certified tuna fisheries and tuna fishery improvement projects (FIPs) — including stakeholders that ISSF technical experts engage with — ISSF’s advocacy partnerships with the fishing industry have a broad global reach and impact. This Web feature visualizes that “influence network” in four major tuna fishing regions.

In this Web feature, we explain how fish aggregating devices (FADs) are used in tuna fishing — and how they affect marine animals and environments. We also highlight ISSF’s efforts, working with tuna fishers and scientific colleagues, to design and manage biodegradable FADs that have lower marine ecosystem impacts.

Scientists have decoded several tuna species’ unique underwater “acoustic signatures.” In this feature, we illustrate how their findings may help tuna fishers to use acoustic equipment like echosounders to fish more sustainably — targeting more abundant species, avoiding overfished stocks, and reducing bycatch.

In tonnes, tuna and tuna-like species have been one of the largest seafood catches to be transshipped at sea.

Our feature shows how gaps in transshipment requirements and oversight in all oceans create opportunities for illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities.