Nuku’alofa – The Pew Charitable Trusts has called for better management of the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. In a statement released to the 18th regular session of the...
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Protecting sharks in the WCPO
On World Oceans Day, WWF Pacific talks about work in Fiji and the WCPO to protect sharks and rays while supporting tuna fishing SUVA – The Government of Fiji has been an active advocate of...
WWF calls for urgent measures to recover heavily depleted oceanic sharks and rays: media release
WWF, 13 May 2021 – WWF urges all states fishing for tuna to implement a set of urgently needed measures – including 100% observer coverage on all industrial fishing vessels by 2030 and recovery...
Sharks and rays easy to identify in new field guide
A new field guide should help crew of tuna vessels and observers to correctly identify 44 kinds of sharks and rays that are accidentally caught during tuna fishing in the Western and...
Climate change resolution tops list of wins for Pacific nations at 16th Tuna Commission meeting
Article highlights: Climate change resolution adopted conservation management measures (CMM) endorsed on the non-target species of mobulid rays and sharks FFA summarises WCPFC16 outcomes for...
Call for urgent action as oceanic whitetip sharks face extinction
Oceanic whitetip shark … the species is threatened with extinction. Photo by Johan Lantz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
How Protecting Sharks Helped Countries Reap Benefits
The Philippines government recognized whale sharks’ importance to tourism and has since worked to better manage and conserve all shark species.
Photo: The Pew Charitable Trusts/Steve De Neef
Shark fins worse than their bite at tuna talks
AS Pacific nations gathered at Waikiki to talk about fisheries conservation methods last week, Japanese fishermen were charged with trafficking shark fins in and out of Hawaii. Sharks have in the...
New push to protect sharks at Tuna Commission
Another push is being made at Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meetings this week for an agreement on a comprehensive shark management measure. The incidental catch of sharks...
Vietnamese blue boats incursions raised anew at WCPFC
by Bernadette H. Carreon WCPFC14, Manila, Philippines - Illegal fishing by boats from Vietnam continues to be a problem in the Pacific, with New Caledonia and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)...
