Around 260 Chinese fishing fleets were recently detected in the seas surrounding the Galápagos islands off the coast of Ecuador. The vast armarda of fishing vessels in the biodiverse Pacific islands has raised alarm bells over the fishing practices that conservationists say could severely damage the region’s protected marine ecosystem. Photo: www.greenqueen.com.hk
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...
The survival of the Pacific’s domestic tuna longline fishery is at stake without more effective management of fishing in the High Seas – those areas outside of the waters of the region’s 200-mile...
by Netani Rika, Islands Business Dec 3, 2017, WCPFC14, Manila--PACIFIC tuna is under threat from the world’s largest fishing nations including China, Japan and South Korea. And the inaction of the...
Republished from WWF-Pacific, 3 December 2017 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) attending the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) have called for the ban of transshipment of...
