After our cameraman left the Esperanza, Greenpeace continued their journey, and captured these images of the world's biggest purse seiner, with a capacity almost four times larger than the New Guinea vessel. It's a Spanish ship fishing for Pacific tuna to stock European supermarkets. The presence of such large vessels, from countries that have already over-fished their own tuna stocks, has riled the operators of local fishing fleets, perhaps with some justification. Some biologists have recently warned that tuna populations in the Pacific will be crashing within five years unless urgent action is taken. Perhaps it's time to think again about the ways we fish. These pole and line fishermen are Solomon Islanders, and this fishing is a local industry. They target specific species, and mature individuals. There's almost no bycatch - no seabirds, no sharks. And they can be selective - flicking juvenile fish off their hooks so they can grow and breed. Because it's impossible to hook every last fish in a school, some are always left to fight another day. And since the fish don't suffer for hours in nets, this meat is of a high quality.


在我们的摄影师离开埃斯佩兰萨号之后，绿色和平组织继续他们的旅程，并拍下世界最大的围网渔船的这些画面几乎四倍于新几内亚渔船捕捞能力。它是艘西班牙的太平洋金枪鱼渔船，为欧洲的超级市场供货。如此大型船只的出现来自一些捕光了金枪鱼的国家，已经使当地捕渔船队的操作员不耐烦和愤怒也许是有一定道理的。一些生物学家最近已经警告，太平洋的金枪鱼将在五年之内消失除非采取紧急的行动。也许是时候反思我们捕渔的方式了。这些用杆和线的渔民是所罗门群岛居民。这种捕渔法是当地的一种工业，几乎没有任何的附带捕捉－没有海鸟 没有鲨鱼。而且他们是有选择的把鲣鱼从鱼钩上解脱，使它们能成长并繁衍。因为不可能钓起鱼群中的每一条鱼，总有一些能留到将来。而且因为鱼不被困在网中长达数小时之久，肉的品质很好。