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 tonnes, as in the case of super-seiners. The design...
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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 Vanuatu. The reports are a snapshot of information on and analysis of...
Pacific urged to stop Japan’s nuclear waste plans
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 29 January 2019 Environmentalists want to stop Japan's plans to discharge what they say is more than a million tonnes of highly contaminated water into the...
FFA’s TUNApacific: A new space to talk about tuna for Palau
To attract attention to tuna stories, I'm excited to be part of the new TUNApacific website aimed at bringing issues around tuna closer to our Pacific people; and sharing our tuna stories in one...
