The team behind the success story of the Noro e-Port facility. Photo: Francis Pituvaka MFMR. HONIARA: The Noro Port in the Western province of Solomon Islands has become the first e-port in the...
catch documentation schemes (CDS)
The illegal, the unreported and the unregulated, and their presence in the WCPO
If you were to speak about “IUU fishing” 10 or 15 years ago, only a few fish nerds would have known what you were saying. Even today, when there is much more known about it, it is still a complex...
FFC adopts the FFA regional PSM framework: media release
HONIARA, 5 August 2020 – The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) has successfully sanctioned the regional Port State Measure (PSM) framework at its 114th meeting, held in...
Solomons to boost digital compliance to make Noro an “e-port”
HONIARA – In an effort to step up monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) efforts to improve the management of its tuna fisheries, Solomon Islands will soon be the first state in the region to...
Advocate for fair fishing the 2019 seafood champion of the world
All smiles … Francisco Blaha and a Solomon Islander at work on a pole-and-line vessel in 2010. Francisco is this year’s SeaWeb Seafood Champion for advocacy. We profile him here. (Photo: Francisco Blaha)
WCPFC to consider bluefin catch documentation
Republished from SeafoodSource, 7 September 2018 The fourteenth regular session of the Northern Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) finishes up Friday, 7...
New Zealand commits NZD 4.9 million to help stop illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing in the Pacific
Press release—republished from Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), 29 June 2018 In a move to enhance tuna fisheries management in the Pacific, the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs...
The types of states in a catch documentation scheme
Republished from Francisco Blaha's blog, 14 March 2018 by Francisco Blaha I promised that I would slowly digest and post parts of our CDS publication to bring some of the key elements to the...
