The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) has published two fact sheets that define basic aspects of tuna fishing in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. One is on the four tuna species...
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Transparency for Tuna
Republished from Project Syndicate, 30 October 2018 Global fish stocks are in decline, but a new tuna management scheme by the Federated States of Micronesia offers a blueprint for recovery. By...
Bangkok tuna prices start leveling off as WCPO fishery restarts
Republished from Undercurrent News, 9 October 2018 After a few consecutive months of increases coinciding with the western central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) ban on fish aggregating devices (FADs),...
Skipjack tuna prices in Bangkok rebound
Republished from Undercurrent News, 8 August 2018 Skipjack tuna prices for delivery to Bangkok, Thailand during August are increasing again, after hitting a two year-record low last month, industry...
Western, Central Pacific tuna fishery in line for MSC
Republished from Undercurrent News, 4 May 2018 The Western Pacific Sustainable Tuna Alliance, Western and Central Pacific skipjack and yellowfin free school purse seine fishery has been ruled to...
PNA re-certified as sustainable
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 9 March 2018 An independent adjudicator in New York has dismissed an objection to the re-certification of sustainable tuna fisheries controlled by the Parties to...
Pacific tuna commission agrees new rules for crucial species
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 12 December 2017 The 26 nations that govern the world's biggest fishery left it to the last minute to agree to new rules for three economically crucial tropical...
