I found this Nat Geo article from 2014 about expanding the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument to be informative, contrasting the small amount of tuna actually caught in this area by boats from American Samoa for their 5000 person Starkist cannery against the need to "protect deep corals that are thousands of years old, 22 species of marine mammals, five species of endangered sea turtles, and millions of fish and nesting seabirds. The area [also] hosts one of the largest populations of manta rays and sharks"
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adven...nservation
Given that 90 percent of all large predatory fish like tuna have been removed from the ocean, lifting habitat protections now to go after the last 10 percent is about as far out of balance as is possible. All of this to give even more market dominance to a South Korean company (Starkist is wholly owned by Dongwon Industries and has 46% of the U.S market share for room temperature tuna products) while pretending to bolster the American seafood industry doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sorry, Charlie!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adven...nservation
Given that 90 percent of all large predatory fish like tuna have been removed from the ocean, lifting habitat protections now to go after the last 10 percent is about as far out of balance as is possible. All of this to give even more market dominance to a South Korean company (Starkist is wholly owned by Dongwon Industries and has 46% of the U.S market share for room temperature tuna products) while pretending to bolster the American seafood industry doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Sorry, Charlie!