HONIARA – The call by the members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) for a freeze on the catch and effort for South Pacific albacore on the high seas south of the equator won...
HONIARA – The call by the members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) for a freeze on the catch and effort for South Pacific albacore on the high seas south of the equator won...
Yellowfin tuna … stocks of this and other species are a focus of FFA’s platform at WCPFC16. Photo: WWF
Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus).
Photo: Undercurrent News/Allen Shimada
The WCFPC has toughened its stance on tuna fishing. It has extended fishing limits, expanded the official observer program, and made tougher rules against bycatch, including the compulsory use of non-entangling FADs.
Republished from Undercurrent News, 8 April 2019 Pacific Islands fishery leaders are said to be content with the results of last weekend's Western and Central Pacific...
Republished from Pacific Island Times, 18 October 2018 Scientists from throughout the Pacific meeting this week in Hilo on the island of Hawai'i have made their recommendations on federally managed...
The time is ideal for the Western and Central Pacific region to put in measures to ensure robust tuna stocks for the future. The most recent assessments on the tuna stocks in the region by the...
Republished from SciDev.Net, 12 December 2017 Member countries and territories of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) have agreed to adopt measures to conserve stocks of...
Republished from SeafoodSource, 8 December 2017 Members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission concluded a five-day conference in Manilla, The Philippines, earlier this week by...