The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

The impact on local food security was severe since horse mackerel is an important source of local food.

Horse mackerel is used by the industrial fishery as feed for animals that are exported abroad as meat.

One of the other things we did was begin to diversify the species that we served small silverfish, anchovies, mackerel, sardines were uncommon.

The warning advised that expectant, pregnant and nursing women and children should not eat any shark, swordfish or king mackerel due to high mercury levels.

In Chile, artisanal fisheries received only 2 percent of the quota in the horse mackerel fishery, too little to maintain current fishing effort when individual non transferable quotas were created in 2001.

For example, the U.S. agency NOAA Fisheries reopened the Hawaiian pelagic longline fishery in spring 2004 with mackerel bait, circle hooks and training in de hooking sea turtles in place of closures.

By comparison, it is relatively fuel efficient to target deep sea species such as menhaden and mackerel, most of which are ground up into meal or used for oil for unsustainable fish farms.

As can be seen in the table and in previous reports, reported catches of krill have remained relatively stable since 1992 93 ranging from 80,000 to 130,000 tons, while reported catches of mackerel icefish (Champsocephalus gunnari) and toothfish (Dissostichus ssp. ) increased significantly until the 2002 2003 season, but dropped during the 2003 2004 season.