Fish ‘n Tips
Mon, 16 Nov 2009 3:04 pm – Posted by Mandy | 3 Comments
Guest Blogger: Forest & Bird Marine Advocate, Kirstie Knowles.
Line fishing, for many of us, is an imaginative exercise.
And if you’re anything like me, before you drop your line into the water, you’ll press your nose almost against the water’s glassy surface, and peer into its inky depths in an attempt to see what bounteous life it contains.
These days if you’re lucky the tug of your line will help to answer this question. If not, your imagination is left to fill the gap, so to speak.
The statistics will leave your imagination reeling.
The UN has estimated that 70% of the world’s fisheries are now exploited to their limits, over-exploited or depleted. In this year’s Best Fish Guide , several types of fish have slipped in our rankings. Two of them are types of tuna (bigeye and yellowfin).