Tagging Tuna to Search for Answers
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Tristan Rouyer tags tuna to understand how they have bounced back after over-exploitation.
Ecologist Tristan Rouyer joins recreational fishers as they compete to catch and tag tuna as part of scientific research to understand how they have bounced back after over-exploitation.
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Tagging Tuna to Search for Answers
Clip: Episode 1 | 6m 24sVideo has Closed Captions
Ecologist Tristan Rouyer joins recreational fishers as they compete to catch and tag tuna as part of scientific research to understand how they have bounced back after over-exploitation.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipUMA THURMAN: Without governance, fishing can be a free-for-all.
To protect nature in these unmanaged waters takes international collaboration... ♪ ..based on accurate scientific information.
Ecologist Tristan Rouyer is hoping to spot one of the world's most valuable fish from the sky.
Buckle up and let's go!
♪ ♪ Tristan is joining Scientific Angler, a fleet of recreational fishers competing to catch a tuna for science.
The Mediterranean Sea is home to one of the most important Atlantic bluefin tuna fisheries in the world... ..making it a prime spot to monitor numbers.
Demand for bluefin surged in the 1990s, which led to their rapid demise.
But against the odds, these highly prized fish are making a comeback.
Fabien!
UMA: The competition is on!
♪ Small tuna like this are the optimum size for tagging.
The tag has been programmed to last for over four years.
It will show Tristan exactly where the tuna goes as it heads out to unprotected waters.
(CHEERING) TRISTAN: Perfect.
UMA: The resurgence of bluefin tuna can't be taken for granted.
Keeping their numbers up requires collaboration.
And Tristan's data feeds into an international coalition of over 50 countries and governments committed to preventing overexploitation in the future.
♪ If Atlantic bluefin tuna can come back from the brink, surely there's hope we can return even more nature to abundance.
