Law Enforcement - Defending Our Oceans (Pacific: 2006)

A Law Enforcement Official from the Federated States of Micronesia checks the log book of the legal Japanese purse-seiner 'Wakaba Maru No8' at sea in Micronesian waters near Kapingamarangi Atoll, as crew members look on.
Greenpeace are on the Pacific Leg of the 'Defending Our Oceans' global expedition. They are calling for an immediate end to pirate fishing, a 50% reduction in the amount of Pacific tuna caught, and a global network of Marine Reserves. Yellow Fin and Big Eye tuna stocks in the Central and Western Pacific are destined to be critically over-fished within three years if the relentless fishing of the two Tuna species continues at current rates.