Skipjack tuna commercial tunas, and its population is considered sustainable against its current consumption. Its fishing is still controversial due to the methodology, with rod and reel or fishery options being promoted as ecologically preferable. Purse seine methods are considered unsustainable by some authorities due to excess bycatch, although bycatch is said to be much reduced if fish aggregation devices are not used. These considerations have led to the availability of canned skipjack marked with the fishing method used to catch it. Skipjack is considered to have "moderate" mercury contamination. As a result, pregnant women are advised against eating large quantities. In
HMS Skipjack (1808) after having lost her master, Birt Dynely, her mate, and four seamen killed, and two men wounded. "Confiance" took "Duke of Montrose" into Guadeloupe. On 23 August 1808 captured the French privateer schooner "Confiance", of seven guns (though pierced for 16) and 70 men. She was three days out from Cayenne. The Royal Navy took "Confiance" into service as "Skipjack". Lieutenant Thompson commissioned "Skipjack" later that year. In January -February 1810, "Skipjack" participated in the capture of Guadeloupe, which earned for her crew the clasp "Guadaloupe" to the Naval General Service Medal that the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all