From putting controls on the use of fish-aggregating devices to introducing the Vessel Day Scheme, several innovations have underpinned efforts to build a large and sustainable tuna fishery in the...
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Solomons government commits to sustainable tuna with help of citizens
Header image: National Fisheries Development purse seiner Solomon-Topaz offloading tuna at Noro, Solomon Islands, during a trial in 2018 HONIARA – Solomon Islands Government has reinforced its...
How we know how much tuna there is and whether fishing is sustainable
The peoples of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) can celebrate having the healthiest stocks of tuna in the world. It doesn’t happen by chance. Protecting populations of tuna so that they...
Pacific youth lead the conversation with Teen Tuna Tok on World Tuna Day: media release
HONIARA and NOUMEA, 2 May 2021 –Amplifying the voices of young Pacific people and addressing their questions and concerns is at the heart of the Teen Tuna Tok campaign, launched this week to...
Tuna numbers healthy, but WCPO needs harvest controls, says ISSF
The tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) are in better shape than those of other oceans, a report just published by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation...
Tonga’s Ocean Plan set for 2021 start
NUKU’ALOFA – Tongan officials expect to take the country’s Ocean Plan to cabinet this year after the initial plan was postponed. Having had nation-wide consultations in 2018 and 2019,...
WCPO tuna fisheries soon to be managed by the whole ecosystem
If the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and its members have it their way, they will soon be managing tuna and other migratory fish in their region by taking into account the needs of...
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...
Report indicates key tuna stocks in Western and Central Pacific are healthy
Republished from SeafoodSource, 12 December 2019 Bigeye, yellowfin, South Pacific albacore, and skipjack tuna are all reported to be in healthy condition, according to a 2018 stock...
