Longlining is destroying our ocean animals but for the most part it is lowering the existence of tuna. Longlining is also damaging other animals like sharks, sea turtles, dolphins and other fish. Longlining is for catching tuna, and when other animals are caught known as bycatch they're just thrown back, usually by the time they are thrown back they're already dead or are dying.
When tuna was first introduced it was first made as a fertilizer. It was then put into to can and was named “chicken of the sea” that's when tuna started to become more well known. From tuna sandwiches then to tuna rolls in sushi. That's when japan got there hands on tuna and it suddenly started booming left and right. When big fisheries started to over fish and when there methods slowly got worse. They came up with techniques that would destroy our ocean life. By doing so we caused a lot of bycatch and screwing up the reproduction of tuna and decreasing the amount of sea animals all over the vast ocean. (Andrew F. Smith)
Tuna are huge on the market especially in japan for sushi use mainly. Japan loves their tuna especially “king tuna,” king tuna are adult sized tuna but they are absolutely massive and are very rare to …show more content…
For years, the species was neglected in fisheries management, being lumped in with other species. But in recent years it has become clear that it was in danger, from overfishing and its own biology - being bigger than other tuna, it takes longer to come to sexual maturity, which scientists estimate takes between four and eight years, this limits its reproductive ability and makes it more vulnerable to the predations of modern industrialised fishing techniques. If the fishing for tuna was put on for halt or if these fish could only be fished for certain season and times then it could give them the time to reproduce or at least have time to spawn with