Is tuna off your menu?
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Lucy Siegle has been asking whether we should still be eating tuna fish.
Recent documentary The End of the Line has - especially the plight of the bluefin tuna. It's on the brink of extinction.
The tuna in your sandwiches is more likely to be the more common skipjack variety, rather than the endangered bluefin. But even catching skipjack impacts on the bluefin population, as they are caught in nets alongside each other.
Big food companies have been announcing that they're opposed to overfishing and will no longer use nets, instead switching to using tuna that's only been caught by the less wasteful pole-and-line method.
According to The End of the Line, changes to fishing methods cannot come too soon. If we continue fishing as we are now, says the documentary, we will see the end of most seafood by 2048.
Which fish are from well-managed, sustainable stocks?
Charity the Marine Conservation Society has .
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Is tuna off your menu? Or will nothing come between you and your favourite fishy sandwich filling? Share your stories with us here.
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