Or take this swordfish.

As a result, much of the swordfish caught is classified as so called bycatch. According to Crowder and Myers, swordfish is such a common catch on tuna targeted trips that about 50 percent of the total swordfish catch is taken as bycatch, not as targeted catch.

As a result, the price for swordfish has been declining because the market is flooded by swordfish from the Caribbean, South America, Australia, Canada, Spain and the Western Pacific.

It is estimated that more swordfish is caught by tuna longlines in the Pacific than longlines targeting swordfish and that such bycatch amounts to about 25 percent of the global catch.

In fact, 48 percent of the swordfish vessels lost money that year.

In fact, the swordfish caught by the world's leading swordfish harvesters Japan and Taiwan is primarily bycatch from tuna fisheries. In effect, the value of the bycatch fish may exceed the targeted fish.

Case concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Exploitation of Swordfish Stocks (Chile European Community)

Of California's 90 seafood processors in 1995, only five processed significant quantities of swordfish.

Tuna and swordfish fisheries are especially petroleum hungry, with energy consumption three times the average.

And in the Mediterranean, in the swordfish net fisheries, they make up up to 90 percent.

As awareness grows, levels of consumption of large predatory fish such as tuna and swordfish are dropping.

So far, the swordfish case is the only one to have been submitted to an ad hoc chamber.

Among the fisheries with the most inefficient edible protein return on investment, vessels targeting shrimp, tuna and swordfish are at the top of the list.

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.

The swordfish fishery was closed and the tuna fishery subject to time area closures due to high levels of sea turtle and sea bird bycatch.

K. Hinman, Ocean Roulette Conserving Swordfish, Sharks and Other Threatened Pelagic Fish in Longline Infested Water, Virginia National Coalition for Marine Conservation, February 1998, p. 8.

Overall, longline vessels targeting swordfish had the lowest average annual profit, 11,000, while longline vessels targeting tuna and mixed species earned 20,000 and 47,000 per year, respectively.

This is true even in southern California, where the bulk of the industrial longline vessels were located until the Hawaiian swordfish longline fishery was reopened in spring 2004.

The next time you dine on sushi or sashimi, or swordfish steak, or shrimp cocktail, whatever wildlife you happen to enjoy from the ocean think of the real cost.

Targeting highly migratory predatory fish species including tuna and swordfish, industrial longlines also catch or kill as many as 4.4 million sea turtles, billfish, sharks, marine mammals and seabirds.

Methyl mercury bio accumulates up the marine food chain to create high concentrations in predatory species of fish such as shark, swordfish and tuna, as well as marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.

On the other hand, aside from shouldering the cost of subsidizing a marginally profitable and inefficient longline industry, developed nations must also pay the costs to public health from mercury contaminated longline caught tuna, shark and swordfish.

There has been an ongoing conflict between Chile and the European Union since 2000, when the Chilean government closed its waters to Spanish industrial longline vessels that had depleted Chile's swordfish stocks and depressed take by local fishers.

In the Case concerning the Conservation and Sustainable Exploitation of Swordfish Stocks in the South Eastern Pacific Ocean, a case which is still pending on the docket, Chile and the European Community have taken advantage of the ad hoc system.

By Order dated 20 December 2000, the Tribunal formed a Special Chamber of five judges to deal with a dispute between Chile and the European Community concerning the conservation and sustainable exploitation of swordfish stocks in the South Eastern Pacific Ocean.

Following an agreement between Chile and the European Community, the Tribunal, by Order dated 20 December 2000, formed a Special Chamber to deal with a dispute between Chile and the European Community concerning the conservation and sustainable exploitation of swordfish stocks.

The U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service notes that the U.S. West Coast longline, gillnet and other fishing for highly migratory species (such as tuna and swordfish) make up only a small portion of overall fisheries related business in most ports and communities.

Of the 32 demersal, pelagic and shellfish fisheries studied, the Central Pacific swordfish tuna longline fishery had the fourth highest fuel use intensity (liters of fuel per ton of catch), and the tuna billfish longline fishery had the highest exceeding even that of shrimp trawling, the second highest.