About Us
ABOUT US
Our products provide customers with unparalleled quality, nutrition, and traceability of the fish to its source. The Pole & Line tuna brand comes to you via fisheries in the north Pacific and the Maldives where fishermen catch tuna using low impact one-by-one fishing methods.
Keeping this long tradition alive off the Pacific Coast of the U.S. are fishermen whose families have fished albacore tuna in these waters for generations, even as the U.S. flagged tuna fishing fleet largely moved to “foreign flags” starting in the 1970s.
OUR METHOD
Using one-by-one methods albacore fishermen use barbless hooks and poles to catch younger albacore tuna one at a time near the sea’s surface. This approach is distinctly different from the longline fishing employed by other fishing fleets which results in the indiscriminate harvest of other species.
Meanwhile, community fishermen in the Maldives catch skipjack tuna using the low impact pole and line method.
MERCURY SAFETY
One-by-one Caught Albacore & Skipjack Tuna Mercury Levels are well below U.S. and International food safety standards. American Tuna Inc., creators of Pole & Line, sources tuna which is harvested near the surface of the ocean using the low impact and time-tested “one-by-one” methods. Younger tuna are naturally low in mercury.
The FDA has established a safe mercury level in tuna at or below 1.0 (one) part per million (ppm). The international standard is even more rigorous at 0.5 (one-half) ppm. Our tuna is tested by an independent lab to ensure it is well below these standards. Testing has confirmed mercury levels are <0.3 ppm in all our species.
