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Photography, The tuna picture1 April 2020

Experiments with hanging crane scales could lead to faster transhipping: postcard from Majuro

A small project to test four types of electronic crane scales may grow into a transhipping process that benefits crews, skippers, vessel managers, sc...

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Photography, The tuna picture30 March 2020

Mending the nets a challenging job: postcard from Noro

Mending fishing nets is no easy task when the net is from a purse-seiner and may be up to 3,000 metres long and 300–400 metres deep, and weigh 6 to...

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News, News27 March 2020

Malaita communities benefit from FADs to sustain fishing grounds

HONIARA, 27 March 2020 – WITH the increasing threats of climate change on local fishing grounds of coastal communities around Malaita Province in S...

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News, News27 March 2020

Solomons’ second tuna cannery at Bina Harbour a government priority

HONIARA, 27 March 2020 – Solomon Islands may soon have its second tuna cannery as initial work on the Bina Harbour project takes off. The harbou...

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News18 March 2020

Women slowly gaining access to more jobs in tuna fisheries, but remain mostly in traditional roles

Small changes are slowly resulting in opportunities for women to take up a wider range of jobs in the tuna fisheries. However, researchers have fo...

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Features17 February 2020

China eyes Solomons tuna

HONIARA, 17 February 2020 – China says it is prepared to strengthen the tuna industry of Solomon Islands and help the tiny Pacific I...

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News, News27 March 2020

Malaita communities benefit from FADs to sustain fishing grounds

HONIARA, 27 March 2020 – WITH the increasing threats of climate change on local fishing grounds of coastal communities around Malaita Province in S...

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News, News27 March 2020

Solomons’ second tuna cannery at Bina Harbour a government priority

HONIARA, 27 March 2020 – Solomon Islands may soon have its second tuna cannery as initial work on the Bina Harbour project takes off. The harbou...

Media releases, News, News26 March 2020

Extraordinary surveillance with Operation Rai Balang in the Pacific

Honiara, 26 March 2020 – On Friday, the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) closes the two-week fisheries surveillance activity, Operation...

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News18 March 2020

Women slowly gaining access to more jobs in tuna fisheries, but remain mostly in traditional roles

Small changes are slowly resulting in opportunities for women to take up a wider range of jobs in the tuna fisheries. However, researchers have fo...

News16 March 2020

Manual on design, technology and use of anchored FADs updated

A new technical manual on the design of and use of anchored fish-aggregating devices has been released for the Pacific Islands. The tech...

News4 March 2020

SPC outlines ways to improve women’s involvement in fisheries

SPC has published short reports into ways that women can have a greater say in fisheries management in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Va...

News17 February 2020

Tuna carry evidence of the human causes of global heating

A group of 22 scientists has discovered that tuna carry inside them clues to how climate heating caused by humans is changing ocean water a...

Media releases

Media releases, News, News26 March 2020

Extraordinary surveillance with Operation Rai Balang in the Pacific

Honiara, 26 March 2020 – On Friday, the Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) closes the two-week fisheries surveillance activity, Operation...

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, Media releases, News11 December 2019

Landmark FFA resolution on climate change adopted by WCPFC16: media release

PORT MORESBY, 11 December 2019 – A landmark Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) resolution on climate change has been adopted by the ...

@WCPFC16, Media releases, News4 December 2019

Media release: FFA takes climate change and a big agenda to WCPFC16

PORT MORESBY, 4 December 2019 – Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) members have developed a comprehensive list of priorities for the 16th...

Media releases, News25 November 2019

FFA welcomes the Prince of Wales to headquarters

HONIARA, 25 November 2019 – The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) today hosted His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, on a visit ...

Media releases, News27 October 2019

Media Release: FFA leads one of largest maritime surveillance operations to end illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing

HONIARA, 25 October 2019 – The Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) lead Operation Kurukuru is one of the largest maritime surveillance oper...

Media releases, News9 August 2019

Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) celebrates 40 years of service

HONIARA, 9 August 2019 – Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) celebrated 40 years of service with a dinner hosted by the Director General, ...

Features

Features6 April 2020

Skilled fisheries officers a critical part of effective port state measures, as Marshall Islands charge shows

There is a lot written by many fisheries organisations in the world about the port state measure (PSM), from the FAO PSM Agreement, to the WCPFC PSM ...

Features27 February 2020

Solomon Islands, Fiji to benefit from One Ocean Hub

HONIARA, 27 February 2020 – Solomon Islands and Fiji are expected to benefit from the One Ocean Hub (OOH) research program that rece...

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Features17 February 2020

China eyes Solomons tuna

HONIARA, 17 February 2020 – China says it is prepared to strengthen the tuna industry of Solomon Islands and help the tiny Pacific I...

Features12 February 2020

Nearly 17,000 tuna tagged in latest research cruise

More than 16,600 tuna were tagged in a recent scientific tagging expedition in ocean generally north of Papua New Guinea. The voyage targeted skip...

@WCPFC16, Features5 December 2019

Pacific tuna reference: Reciprocity of weavers, planters, fishers

The 16th session of the Pacific Tuna Commission (WCPFC16) that oversees waters producing 55% of the global tuna catch gets underway this we...

Features30 September 2019

Tens of thousands of tuna-attracting devices are drifting around the Pacific

Republished from The Conversation, 30 September 2019 Joe Scutt Phillips, Secretariat of the Pacific Community; Alex Sen Gupta, UNSW; Graham Pillin...

Features2 September 2019

The Tuna Industry: Embracing technologies and sustainable strategies

Republished from Panay News, 23 August 2019 by Belinda Sales-Canlas THE 21st National Tuna Congress is happening on September 4-6, 2019 in Gene...

The tuna picture

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Photography, The tuna picture1 April 2020

Experiments with hanging crane scales could lead to faster transhipping: postcard from Majuro

A small project to test four types of electronic crane scales may grow into a transhipping process that benefits crews, skippers, vessel managers, sc...

Featured

Photography, The tuna picture30 March 2020

Mending the nets a challenging job: postcard from Noro

Mending fishing nets is no easy task when the net is from a purse-seiner and may be up to 3,000 metres long and 300–400 metres deep, and weigh 6 to...

The tuna picture17 December 2019

Rays to be released while still in the water: postcard from WCPFC16

Tuna fishers will have to do everything they can to save rays, including the magnificent manta ray, that are unintentionally caught during fishing op...

The tuna picture17 December 2019

Handling seabirds so they survive: postcard from WCPFC16

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has introduced updated advice on how to handle seabirds caught on longline hooks so...

@WCPFC15, Photography, The tuna picture15 December 2018

#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, Photography, The tuna picture15 December 2018

#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...

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