Locals’ access to skipjack purse-seine tuna fishery of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has increased. The 2020 tuna fisheries assessment report, conducted by the Pacific Community...
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2020 tuna research at sea conducted, but cut back to follow COVID-19 rules
Two important tuna research trips have gone ahead in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) this year, although the research programs and the routes had to be curtailed dramatically. Both...
Western and Central Pacific banks on SPC specimen collection
One of the most important tools in understanding the biology and environment of tuna in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean is a bank. This particular institution, the Pacific Marine Specimen Bank...
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 recently began work in the Pacific. The two Melanesian...
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 and types and quantities of plankton – and...
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 skipjack tuna, which makes up 70% of the volume of tuna...
Tuna tagging in the Pacific – Papua New Guinea
A short movie about the latest PNG tuna tagging cruise in Jan-Mar 2012. Project funded by PNG NFA and jointly undertaken with SPC's Oceanic Fisheries Programme....
Survey shows focus on tuna stocks
A survey of people interested in Pacific fisheries shows that 92% were most interested to find out more about tuna stocks in the Pacific. 97 people completed a survey about a new website being...
