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Tens of thousands of tuna-attracting devices are drifting around the Pacific

  • Written by Joe Scutt Phillips, Senior Fisheries Scientists (Tuna Behavioural Ecology), Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Tens of thousands of tuna-attracting devices are drifting around the PacificFish are attracted to floating objects, especially with dangling ropes or nets. WorldFish/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Tropical tuna are one of the few wild animals we still hunt in large numbers, but finding them in the vast Pacific ocean can be tremendously difficult. However, fishers have long known that tuna are attracted to, and will aggregate around,...

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