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NZ Deputy Prime Minister impressed with FFA
HONIARA, 6 June, 2019 – The
Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) welcomed a high level delegation
led by the New Zealand Deputy Prime Minis...
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FFA’s smallest fisheries surveillance Operation still covers an area 22 times the size of New Zealand
HONIARA, 4 June, 2019 – Operation
Tui Moana 2019 is the smallest regional fisheries surveillance operation conducted
by the Pacific Islands Forum F...
Trump administration to work together with Palau, FSM, and RMI to combat IUU fishing
The United States, Palau, the Republic of the
Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia have made commitments
to work together to comba...
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Climate change missing from Trump’s Pacific meeting – analysts
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 24 May 2019
Pacific analysts say a meeting between US President Donald Trump and the Freely Associated States...
Annual Forum Fisheries Ministerial meeting kicks off in Micronesia
POHNPEI, 16 June 2019 – The 16th
Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial meeting begins tomorrow in Pohnpei, the
capital of the Federated States of M...
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New changes coming to Palau’s national marine sanctuary law
Proposed amendments to the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act (PNMS) to lift the export ban on pelagic fish and create a corridor to the high seas a...
Three (3) months (July, August and September) prohibition of deploying, servicing or setting on FADs in EEZs and high seas of Convention Area between 20N to 20S
Republished from the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
Federated States of Micronesia, Pohnpei
Deadline: 1 Jul 2019 to 1 Oct ...
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PNA member countries will now have access to Tokelau’s waters
Tokelau and the Parties to the Nauru
Agreement (PNA) member countries signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) at
last week’s meeting of PNA Mini...
FFA launches fact sheets on tuna fishing basics
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has published two fact sheets that define basic aspects of tuna fishing in the Western and Central P...
Economic and climate resilience focus of NZ meeting in Cooks
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 28 May 2019
Economic and climate resilience were key focus points of a meeting between the New Zealand and Co...
PNG industry, Frabelle hope MSC certification can boost processing sector
by Neil Ramsden
Republished from Undercurrent News, 24 May 2019
Papua New Guinea (PNG) has commenced the process of getting its tuna ...
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New changes coming to Palau’s national marine sanctuary law
Proposed amendments to the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act (PNMS) to lift the export ban on pelagic fish and create a corridor to the high seas a...
Pacific fishing nations strengthen rules to protect their tuna and economies
Tougher rules to protect tuna stocks as well as boost struggling Pacific Island economies were the focus of Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Com...
Diplomatic dance around Japanese delicacy
IN the Japanese port of Ishigaki, the longline fleet has braced for the impact of the decision of a tiny Pacific state to ban fishing in its waters fr...
Shark fins worse than their bite at tuna talks
AS Pacific nations gathered at Waikiki to talk about fisheries conservation methods last week, Japanese fishermen were charged with trafficking shark ...
Livelihoods on the line as Pacific nations unite to fight for albacore tuna industry
WCPFC15, Honolulu, Hawaii, 12 December 2018— Albacore tuna is a vital resource for many Pacific nations but many domestic longline interests are be...
Regionalism critical for strengthening fisheries solidarity in Pacific
HONOLULU, 11 DECEMBER 2018 (PACNEWS)---- With claims and counter claims by global powers that the Pacific is their strategic‘ sphere’ of influence, sub regionalism has been touted as the best way of cooperation to address complex fisheries issues for members of WPFC.
Tuna has shaped regional politics and influenced the relationship between ...
The types of states in a catch documentation scheme
Republished from Francisco Blaha's blog, 14 March 2018
by Francisco Blaha
I promised that I would slowly digest and post parts of...
Solomons makes $399M from tuna alone, in 2017
THE Solomon Islands government has earned a record $399 million Solomon Island Dollar (SBD) from its tuna resources in 2017, the Ministry of Fisheries...
#WCPFC15 POSTCARDS: BACK TO THE BREAD AND BUTTER ISSUES – Eugene Pangelinan, Executive Director, National Oceanic Resources Management Authority, FSM
This is WCPFC 15, and it's number 15 for me. That's the nature of my job, like any other Fisheries manager here. It's to make sure the decisions of th...
#WCPFC15 Postcards: BETWEEN OCEAN AND LAND- TUNA’s SEABIRD CONNECTION- Karen Baird, Oceania Regional Coordinator, Birdlife International
What's my Tuna Commission why? My passion for maritime advocacy comes from a love for albatrosses and seabirds. I grew up in a country where we have m...
#WCPFC15 Postcards: SWIMMING WITH THE FISH- Charleston (Charlie) Deiye, CEO Fisheries, Nauru
This Tuna T-shirt? It started as a doodle, and it's not a tuna.It's something created while I listened to everyone during a meeting. I doodle away whi...
#WCPFC15 Postcards: CONSENSUS THROUGH COMPROMISE- Feleti Tulafono, Fisheries Director, Tokelau
I've been working in Fisheries for seven years, and I think it's mainly because of my interest in this work that I'm still here, at my fourth Tuna Com...
New Director General of Forum Fisheries Agency starts
Congratulations Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, on her assumption of duties as the new Director-General of the Forum Fisheries Agency in Honiara A milestone...
SPC scientist presents at the Infofish Tuna 2018 conference and exhibition, Thailand
Valerie Allain, Senior Fisheries Research Scientist (ecosystem and climate change) at Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) presented her researc...