Well, this is a funny one. If you?re looking for vegan tuna salad, then you?re in the right place. If you came across the recipe by accident, or were curious from the title, then you might want to stick around a little longer. If you were planning to eat real tuna – you might want, or even need, to rethink it.
Vegan tuna salad – a step in the right direction"
Actually, I lied. This isn?t a particularly funny one. Whether or not we can see it, the world?s oceans are being overfished. Seriously overfished. This leads to many problems – not only for the fish being fished of course, but through all walks (or swims) of marine life. Too many top predators like tuna being taken away leads to a disruption at the lower end of the food chain, leading to an increase in algae, as well as multiple threats to coral reef life. As if that wasn?t enough, an estimated 100 million sharks are killed by fishing or as bycatch each year. Some are killed for food, others for leather, others have their fins ripped off and are thrown back to die in the ocean. It?s not a pretty picture.
Bycatch (meaning the wrong species, or size, or gender, or quality of fished animal) hits where you don?t expect it, too. Each year around 100,000 albatrosses are killed due to fishing related causes. Sea turtles are also all too often unwitting victims of the whole fishing industry.

It?s not just animals that are suffering either. The images of local fisherman braving nearby seas in small boa...