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San Diego was the tuna capital of the world. Can the fleet recover?
In 2020, Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Sea Grant launched a fishing apprenticeship, aimed at shoring up the ranks of San Diego’s declining commercial fishing fleet. Instead, the program revealed just how tenuous the industry has become. Once known as the tuna capital of the world and employing more than 40,000 people, the fleet dwindled to […]
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In 2020, Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Sea Grant launched a fishing apprenticeship, aimed at shoring up the ranks of San Diego’s declining commercial fishing fleet. Instead, the program revealed just how tenuous the industry has become. Once known as the tuna capital of the world and employing more than 40,000 people, the fleet dwindled to […]
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According to CalMatters’s source item, San Diego was the tuna capital of the world. Can the fleet recover?, In 2020, Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Sea Grant launched a fishing apprenticeship, aimed at shoring up the ranks of San Diego’s declining commercial fishing fleet. Instead, the program revealed just how tenuous the industry has become. Once known as the tuna capital of the world and employing more than 40,000 people, the fleet dwindled to […]
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