Earlier this year, the U.S. warned that albacore and bigeye tuna, also caught with longlines, are being overfished in the Pacific.

Crowder, L., and R. Myers, A Comprehensive Study of the Ecological Impacts of the Worldwide Pelagic Longline Industry, 2001 First Annual Report to the Pew Charitable Trusts, draft, Philadelphia Pew Charitable Trusts, December 3, 2001, p. xii, 112. In the Pacific, for example, bigeye tuna is listed as endangered by the IUCN.