Conservation in the Marquesas

This link is to a video about the increasingly industrial fishing of, especially tuna, around the Marquesas islands and the need to form a protective zone where the breeds which sustain the islands can regenerate.

 Unfortunately, human greed once again invades paradise. Most of the fishing done by the islander is in the traditional way by free diving and catching the fish either with spears or just  taking lobsters by hand. This is not enough to deplete the stock and can be sustained. The large tuna boats take vast quantities of fish which cannot be sustained. 

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