High seas transshipments of tuna targeted for action
Honolulu 13 December 2018 — Pacific Island fisheries leaders want the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission to effectively address a ser...
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...
FFA push for Tropical Tuna measure to be maintained: WCPFC negotiations reach a critical stage
HONOLULU, 13 DECEMBER 2018 (PACNEWS)----- Members of the 17-nation Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) will push for the Tropical Tuna measu...
New push to protect sharks at Tuna Commission
Another push is being made at Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meetings this week for an agreement on a comprehensive shark m...
Small Pacific nations speak out at Tuna Commission
HONOLULU, 12 DECEMBER 2018 (PACNEWS)--- The tiny Pacific nation of Niue has called on members of the Tuna Commission (WCPFC) to ensure fisheries reso...
PNA members add political weight to Pacific push to keep EEZ rights if they lose land to sea level rise
HONOLULU,10 DECEMBER 2018 (PACNEWS)---- The eight nations that are Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) are to investigate ways to claim their curren...
Pacific fisheries leaders highlight Tuna Commission action
Honolulu 14 December 2018 — Pacific Islands fisheries leaders expressed satisfaction with the actions taken this week by the Western and Central Pac...
Labour standards push hopes for thumbs up from Tuna Commission
Building on the success of their support for Observer safety at the 2016 Pacific Tuna Commission session in Nadi, Forum Fisheries countries are gunning for the 15th session in Honolulu this week to pass a resolution aimed at ending any cruel and unfair treatment of crew members on fishing vessels.
The non-binding resolution on Labour standards ...
Pacific nations warned of threat to sovereignty from Distant Water Fishing Nations
HONOLULU, 13 DECEMBER 2018 (PACNEWS)---- Papua New Guinea’s Fisheries Industry Association has warned delegates at the Tuna Commission to ensure their national interests are protected from the threat posed by Distant Water Fishing Nations (DWFNs) wanting to extend the jurisdiction of fishing rules.
Chairman Sylvester Pokajam said members of ...
Japan does not support US big-eye proposal at Tuna Commission
Japan believes that the US proposal to increase its bigeye catch limit is not fair.
The proposal would reward countries for better than minimum ob...
Japan seeks to continue fishing in Palau waters
Japan stressed the importance of its relationship with the Pacific, with most of the big scale fishing by the Japanese being centered in Pacific nations' water.
Head of Delegation for Japan Shingo Ota, speaking at the Tuna Commission meeting in Honolulu said they were concerned about 20 small-scale longliners from Okinawa prefecture operating ...
Japan speaks out on ‘unfair’ US proposal
Japan said that the United States proposal to that the Tuna Commission increase its catch-quota on for bigeye tuna is “unfair,”
“I think the US is picking up only limited factors which are in favour of their operations. So, I think it is unfair,” the Head of Delegation for Japan Shingo Ota told reporters at the Tuna Commission meeting....
FSM taps into technology for full tuna transparency
The Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) is tapping into the latest high-tech surveillance technology to be its eyes on the vessels to monitor fishin...
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 ...
Pacific steps up its fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing with call to powerful fishing nations
HONOLULU, 10 DECEMBER 2018 (PACNEWS)-----The two largest fisheries organisations in the Pacific have joined forces to ramp up work to mitigate Illega...
‘Tuna diplomacy’ is one of the game-changers for the Pacific.
Tuna has shaped regional politics and influenced the relationship between Pacific Islands States and major trading partners including China, Japan, Un...
Quest for a Natural Currency Standard for Pacific Tuna
Ronald Toito'ona reporting from the Thriving Pacific Workshop
Pacific leaders from fishing agencies, industries and businesses, conservationists an...
Pacific nations’ battle for economic survival: extracting maximum value from tuna resource while protecting the fishery
Economic benefits can come in different forms: royalty returns from selling fishing rights to foreign nations, and providing fish for the domestic mar...
Making Progress in Sustainable Oceanic Fisheries—UNDP Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Management II
Republished from IW:LEARN, 22 June 2018
IW:LEARN is the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Netwo...
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...