Seafood caught in the Coral Triangle feeds millions of people and sustains In shrimp fisheries, local economies. But with growing seafood consumption and dwindling fish juvenile and small populations, marine ecosystems are threatening to collapse. Not only will low value/'trash SEAFOOD fisherfolk lose their source of income -- people around the world will have a fish' can outweigh much smaller selection of seafood to choose from. IN THE CORAL TRIANGLE target catch by: TO EUROPE 10 to 1 TO JAPAN

HONG KONG TAIWAN Indonesia, together with the Philippines and Papua New Guinea, are among the top 10 tuna HANOI STATUS OF SKIPJACK TUNA John Hampton, 2007 YELLOWFIN TUNA producing countries in the world. Fully Overfished Not BIGEYE TUNA exploited overfished Tuna industry BANGKOK 991,482 MANILA PHILIPPINES US$1 billion metric tons HO CHI MINH CITY KRABI Annual trade and tuna catch in Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Fiji. INDONESIA WWF Based on figures from the WCPFC 2008 yearbook SINGAPORE PACIFIC OCEAN PAPUA NEW GUINEA Live Reef Food Fish industry

TO U.S. 30,000 NEW GUINEA US$ 810 milion metric tons JAKARTA

SOLOMON Annual regional trade and catch in live reef food fish DENPASAR KUPANG ISLAND in the Asia-Pacific region. In some high production LEGEND areas the actual yield of live reef fish is more than Live reef food fish trade flow: twice that which scientists say reefs can sustain. Coral Triangle By sea Hong Kong Agriculture Fisheries and Tuna trade flow By air Conservation Department Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department, 2009 Trading hubs By road WWF, 2008

© 1986 Panda symbol WWF ® "WWF" is a WWF Registered Trademark. More information, along with a downloadable version of this factsheet, The Coral Triangle - the nursery of the seas - is the most diverse marine region on the planet, covering some can be found at www.panda.org/coraltriangle 6 million km2 of ocean across 6 countries in the Asia-Pacific region. This ecological wonder is home to 76% Credits: Catalyze Sustainability Communications of the world's reef-building coral species and 6 out the 7 known species of marine turtles.