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High seas fisheries: Ocean pelagic resources living near the surface are exploited by purse seiners and surface long-liners . Top: Italian purse seinerfishing in the central Adriatic. Middle: Bluefin tuna caught in the South Tyrrhenian by a purse seiner. Bottom:Distant-water surface longliner operating inthe Mediterranean. (Image credit: Top-E. Pesola;Center- M. Deflorio; Greenpeace.)