Pacific fisheries surveillance ramps up – nowhere to hide in this regional fishery
RFSC, FFA HQ, Honiara SOLOMON ISLANDS-- Regional fishing fleets have ‘eyes in the sky’ watching their every move. For the past three weeks Operati...
SustainPacFish – New web portal links to information on sustaining and conserving Pacific oceanic fisheries
SustainPacFish is a new web portal designed to provide Pacific fisheries managers and industry with links to the latest information about measures to ...
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...
Palau checks out movement of yellowfin tuna, blue marlin
A two-year mission to examine the movement of yellowfin tuna and Indo-Pacific blue marlin was launched in Palau late last year.
Palau Internation...
UNPLUGGED: Impacts of 2018 Tuna Commission measures on Pacific island fisheries
“When you look at the measure [Tropical Tuna Bridging Measure], there’s a series of very strong concessions that FFA members as a group gave to ac...
Thriller in Manila: Popping the Pacific’s US$22 billion ‘tuna bubble’
The two principal priorities for Pacific small island states are climate change and fisheries. One seeks finance and redress from rich developed count...
FFA hosts Pacific-Global Zone-based Tuna Fisheries Management Knowledge Exchange
Republished from FAO, 8 March 2018
Peter Cusack, Regional Coordinator - Pacific Islands Regional Oceanscape Program
Honiara, Solomon Islands 13-15 February 2018. Lamine Camara, Director of Fisheries for Mauritania, was the first representative from Mauritania to visit the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) in Honiara, Solomon Island...
New Japan patrol boat boosts Palau fight against IUU
Republished from Pacific Note, 14 February 2018
Written by Bernadette H. Carreon
Koror, Palau - The additional patrol boat to Palau from...
Commencement of aerial surveillance – Pacific Maritime Security Program
Republished from Australian Department of Defence, 28 January 2018
Media release from Senator the Hon Marise Payne
A civilian aerial ...
Palau’s marine surveillance boosted with new patrol boat
Boosting its marine surveillance, a Japan-funded patrol boat arrived in Koror Palau on December 19, 2017.
An official handover ceremony is schedule...
To succeed, large ocean sanctuaries need to benefit both sea life and people
Republished from The Conversation, 22 November 2017
by Rebecca Gruby, Lisa Campbella, Luke Fairbanks and Noella Gray
There is growing ...
NGOs slam fishing nation delay tactics: stalemate on albacore tuna
MANILA, Philippines, December 7 – Environment NGOs have delivered a damning indictment of a group of Pacific Tuna Commission members, saying they ha...
FFA Deputy Director General appointment announced
MANILA, Philippines, December 7 -- Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Director General James Movick announced the appointment of New Zealand...
Closing the fisheries loopholes
Authorities battle with e-monitoring
By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, the Philippines
WHEN the Pacific met its international partners at the 12th Weste...
FFA Pacific nations at forefront of fisheries management: maximize returns and food security
Managing the Pacific’s tuna stock is important in terms of the global marine ecosystem and for Pacific people and their economies. It points to Paci...
Vietnamese reef robbers- rocking the Pacific boat
Koror, Palau — 'Blue Boats' a phantom fleet of marginally registered fishing vessels, set sail from small villages in Vietnam to venture out and s...
Profiles from the Oceanic Fishery: Rhea Moss-Christian
A real life David and Goliath struggle has unraveled in the Pacific as a young woman from a small island nation takes on the cause of protecting the w...
Reef Robbers: Who’s paying? New pressures for Pacific surveillance from Vietnam’s Blue Boats
Does the Pacific have a system capable of mounting effective surveillance, capture and arrest illegal vessels and operators in its 20million-plus squa...
Pacific’s NTSA- a weapon against illegal fishing
Pacific Forum countries lose an estimated US$153million each year to Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing operators.
In a region where...
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...
Pacific air patrols will do more than combat illegal fishing
By Scott Brady
Protecting fish stocks from illegal fishing is of critical importance to the economy, food security and stability of Pacific Island ...
The economic value of tuna catches in the Western Pacific
Republished from Franciso Blaha's blog, 4 October 2017
by Francisco Blaha
As said many times before, I'm not only blown away by th...
Notes from the 6th Pacific Tuna Forum
Republished from Franciso Blaha's blog, 18 September 2017
by Francisco Blaha
Just back 6th Pacific Tuna Forum in Port Moresby in P...
The insides of the FAO Port State Measures Agreements implementation
Republished from Franciso Blaha's blog, 5 September 2017
by Francisco Blaha
The last 2 weeks I have been working for FAO as a resour...
Securing a sustainable future in the Pacific – a TED talk
Republished from Franciso Blaha's blog, 29 July 2017
by Francisco Blaha
My colleague and friend David Power, a management advisor...
E-Pacific: The array of apps for fisheries data acquisition we use in the WCPO
Republished from Franciso Blaha's blog, 20 July 2017
by Francisco Blaha
For a part of the world that has had a lot of difficulties...
Tuna: talk of the town in Manila this week
Tuna is the talk of the town in Manila this week at WCPFC14. But what is the WCPFC?
Published 5 Dec 2017...
Fisheries leader takes global fishing powers to task
Opening remarks at the 14th Regular Session of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission from Rhea Moss-Christian (WCPFC).
Publis...
FFA lauds improved process of high seas fishing policymaking at WCPFC14
Wez Norris (FFA) talks about, for the first time, looking at opportunities and rights on the high seas for fishery fleets, at the 14th Regular Sessio...
Cooperation and positive outcomes from WCPFC14 work
Rhea Moss-Christian (WCPFC) talks about the positive outcomes and cooperation from the 14th Regular Session of the Western & Central Pacific Fishe...
WWF shares an environmental perspective about WCPFC14
Bubba Cook (WWF) talks about an environment NGO perspective from the 14th Regular Session of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.
...
Targeting illegal fishing: Port state measure adopted at WCPFC14
The 14th Regular Session of the Western & Central Pacific Fisheries Commission adopts Port State Measures.
Published 7 Dec 2017...