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News, News11 February 2021

Pacific solidarity needed to get climate change embedded in Tropical Tuna Measure

Honiara – As discussions on a new Tropical Tuna Measure (TTM) loom, Pacific island countries need to push more to get the international commun...

Featured

Features9 February 2021

Pandemic, climate threats and economic hardship in illegal sea cucumber harvesting on Ontong Java

Honiara – As a result of the growing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the everyday challenges of climate change, some people of the Malait...

Featured

News, News4 February 2021

WCPO tuna fisheries soon to be managed by the whole ecosystem

If the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and its members have it their way, they will soon be managing tuna and other migra...

Featured

Features2 February 2021

FFA prioritises advancement of observer and crew “safety culture”

HONIARA – While national and regional observer vessel placements remain suspended until at least 15 February, Pacific fisheries organisations are...

Featured

News, News1 February 2021

Malaitan community benefits from local government FAD program

HONIARA – Malaitan communities have already benefited from the provincial government’s initiative to provide coastal communities with ...

Featured

Features1 February 2021

Fisheries officials the key to unlock the Pacific’s multi-billion-dollar potential

The Pacific Ocean is vast. It is so big you can fit not one, not two, but five of Earth’s moons inside it and have room left over. If ...

Featured

Features25 January 2021

Success of 2021 WCPFC meeting could be hampered by ongoing travel restrictions

The year 2020 will be remembered for the many different ways the COVID-19 pandemic dominated human lives. COVID swaggered; blazed. Seemingly overn...

News

Featured

News, News11 February 2021

Pacific solidarity needed to get climate change embedded in Tropical Tuna Measure

Honiara – As discussions on a new Tropical Tuna Measure (TTM) loom, Pacific island countries need to push more to get the international commun...

Featured

News, News4 February 2021

WCPO tuna fisheries soon to be managed by the whole ecosystem

If the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and its members have it their way, they will soon be managing tuna and other migra...

Featured

News, News1 February 2021

Malaitan community benefits from local government FAD program

HONIARA – Malaitan communities have already benefited from the provincial government’s initiative to provide coastal communities with ...

Media releases, News19 January 2021

Pacific tuna fishery protections in place for 2021: media release

Honiara, 21 December 2020 – Pacific Island countries have worked with fishing nations to secure crucial protection measures next year for...

News, News16 December 2020

WCPFC17 members agree on way to negotiate new Tropical Tuna Measure in 2021

A process for negotiating a new Tropical Tuna Measure has been agreed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), paving the way...

News, News15 December 2020

IATTC leaves tropical tuna unmanaged as meeting fails to reach consensus by one vote

By Chris Chase, republished from SeafoodSource, 8 December 2020 The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) has failed to reach a cons...

News, News10 December 2020

WCPFC17 expects to carry over vital Tropical Tuna Measure in this year’s virtual meeting

The virtual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission kicked off this week with one of the anticipated positive outcomes being ...

Media releases

Media releases, News19 January 2021

Pacific tuna fishery protections in place for 2021: media release

Honiara, 21 December 2020 – Pacific Island countries have worked with fishing nations to secure crucial protection measures next year for...

Media releases, News3 November 2020

Enormous fisheries surveillance effort by FFA and members: media release

Honiara, 28 October 2020 – One of the largest maritime surveillance operation in the world, Operation Kurukuru, concludes on Friday,...

Media releases, News3 November 2020

FFA thanks Solomon Islands Government for its support during pandemic: media release

Honiara, 20 October 2020 – The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency has expressed its gratitude to the Solomon Islands Government for its as...

Media releases, News14 September 2020

Commitment to enhanced cooperation between FFA and RSIPF: media release

Honiara, 10 September 2020 – A visit by executive officers of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) to the Pacific Islands Forum...

Media releases, News7 September 2020

Pacific cooperation ensures fisheries continue despite COVID-19: media release

Honiara, 4 September 2020 – Member countries of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) are actively working together to mitigate the...

Features

Featured

Features9 February 2021

Pandemic, climate threats and economic hardship in illegal sea cucumber harvesting on Ontong Java

Honiara – As a result of the growing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the everyday challenges of climate change, some people of the Malait...

Featured

Features2 February 2021

FFA prioritises advancement of observer and crew “safety culture”

HONIARA – While national and regional observer vessel placements remain suspended until at least 15 February, Pacific fisheries organisations are...

Featured

Features1 February 2021

Fisheries officials the key to unlock the Pacific’s multi-billion-dollar potential

The Pacific Ocean is vast. It is so big you can fit not one, not two, but five of Earth’s moons inside it and have room left over. If ...

Featured

Features25 January 2021

Success of 2021 WCPFC meeting could be hampered by ongoing travel restrictions

The year 2020 will be remembered for the many different ways the COVID-19 pandemic dominated human lives. COVID swaggered; blazed. Seemingly overn...

Features18 December 2020

Salt fish trade gains new popularity in Solomons as pandemic grip lingers

With the recent rise in popularity of the ‘salt fish’ trade in the Solomon Islands capital of Honiara, fresh fish and tuna vendors in the city ma...

Features14 December 2020

How the Pacific fisheries sector managed to navigate COVID-19

In a year like no other, the work to harvest and sustainably manage the world’s largest tuna fishery in the Western Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) ha...

Features24 November 2020

New technologies promise monitoring breakthrough for transhipment at sea

Republished from FFA Trade and Industry News, volume 13, issue 4, July–August 2020 Technologies such as vessel monitoring systems, onboard ...

The tuna picture

Photography, The tuna picture25 June 2020

FAD launches in Malaita to support incomes during COVID-19 restrictions

This group of Malaita residents is preparing to release a fish-aggregating device (FAD) at Uhu in the West Are’are area of Solomon Islands' Malaita...

Photography8 June 2020

Ferry route an economic lifeline for Russell Islanders

Over the years, the Gizo–Honiara ferry has provided an economic lifeline for the fishing community of the Russell Islands. This ship is moored at t...

Photography, The tuna picture1 May 2020

Long hours ahead to unload tons of tuna

In much of the world it’s Labour Day, and we salute the workers who crew the tuna fishing vessels. These two fishers from a purse-seine crew are st...

The tuna picture, Videos21 April 2020

Accuracy and speed needed to prepare tuna for same-day delivery around the world

The people who cut up tuna at the Marshall Islands Fishing Venture (MIFV) processing facility in Majuro make it look easy – but there’s a lot of ...

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...

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...

FFA Media Fellows past events

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News16 December 2019

Climate change resolution tops list of wins for Pacific nations at 16th Tuna Commission meeting

Article highlights: Climate change resolution adoptedconservation management measures (CMM) endorsed on the non-target species of mobulid rays and...

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News13 December 2019

New protection for threatened manta and mobula rays in Pacific waters

PORT MORESBY – The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) took a major step in helping to protect “threatened” manta and...

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News12 December 2019

Tuna Commission adopts FFA climate-change resolution

Republished from Radio New Zealand, 12 December 2019 PORT MORESBY – The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) is taking ...

@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, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News11 December 2019

Tuna Commission endorses work plan to manage South Pacific albacore sustainably

PORT MORESBY, 11 December 2019 – One of the positive outcomes from the just-ended 16th annual Tuna Commission meeting is the adoption of the South ...

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

Tuna commission adopts climate change resolution, recognises impact of climate change on fisheries

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) today adopted a landmark Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) resolution that ta...

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

Tuna Commission moves to protect seabirds from bycatch

Republished from Radio New Zealand, 11 December 2019 The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission has moved to further safeguard seabirds ...

@WCPFC16

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News16 December 2019

Climate change resolution tops list of wins for Pacific nations at 16th Tuna Commission meeting

Article highlights: Climate change resolution adoptedconservation management measures (CMM) endorsed on the non-target species of mobulid rays and...

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News13 December 2019

New protection for threatened manta and mobula rays in Pacific waters

PORT MORESBY – The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) took a major step in helping to protect “threatened” manta and...

@WCPFC16, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News12 December 2019

Tuna Commission adopts FFA climate-change resolution

Republished from Radio New Zealand, 12 December 2019 PORT MORESBY – The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) is taking ...

@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, FFA Media Fellows past events, News, News11 December 2019

Tuna Commission endorses work plan to manage South Pacific albacore sustainably

PORT MORESBY, 11 December 2019 – One of the positive outcomes from the just-ended 16th annual Tuna Commission meeting is the adoption of the South ...

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

Tuna commission adopts climate change resolution, recognises impact of climate change on fisheries

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) today adopted a landmark Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) resolution that ta...

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

Tuna Commission moves to protect seabirds from bycatch

Republished from Radio New Zealand, 11 December 2019 The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission has moved to further safeguard seabirds ...

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