No billfish or tuna around? Well, at least there will always be mahi. Or will there? Mahi seem to be taken for granted, particularly in the Pacific. But an organization known as the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership has released an overview of Pacific mahi that calls into question just how healthy stocks of that iconic blue-water game fish are, noting that mahi are caught on longlines and taken in purse seines, whether directed or as bycatch. I have seen purse seiners’ nets off Ecuador stuffed with thousands of mahi (the intended catch, targeted and not taken incidentally), and can easily imagine that despite the species’ well-known and astounding rate of growth, it could be undergoing overfishing. Sadly, mahi really have no international champion, and even regional management organizations are mostly concerned with the ...Image may be NSFW.
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