The species of fish landed include blue tang, doctor fish, parrotfish, grunts, triggerfish, snappers and groupers.

Then the plankton feeders, these little damselfish, the little animals floating in the water.

We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.

And then we have a lower biomass of carnivores, and a lower biomass of top head, or the sharks, the large snappers, the large groupers.

One day when I was only seven years old and fishing, I pulled a pinfish, they're called, with sharp dorsal spines, up too hard and fast, and I blinded myself in one eye.

Laporan tersebut menunjukkan bahwa kapal kapal asing ini berkontribusi pada penangkapan ikan yang berlebihan (overfishing) terhadap populasi ikan todak, kakap, marlin, dan hiu. Kapal kapal asing yang menggunakan pukat dasar (bottom trawl) melakukan penangkapan ikan yang tidak bertanggung jawab dan bertindak berdasarkan impunitas, menyeret jaring jaring berukuran besar, menghancurkan dasar laut dan merusak habitat laut yang vital seluas 120.000 kilometer persegi (46.000 mil persegi).