ENVIRONMENT groups are calling for a permanent ban on ''deadly'' artificial fishing devices used to attract huge tuna catches in the Pacific after scientific reports found that stocks of bigeye tuna are collapsing.

Greenpeace activists aboard the Esperanza confiscated several of the devices known as FADs (fish aggregation devices) in Pacific waters this week and forced a Korean fishing vessel to leave a closed fishing zone in an effort to highlight the threat to the tuna fisheries. ...

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