It’s been a busy year for the team at the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project with significant progress ranging from fish stock assessments to vessel day scheme training initiatives. For OFMP’s...
coastal fisheries
Traders’ access to tuna in Honiara affected during COVID-19
Honiara Central Market. Photo: JOG. Story by George J. Maelagi Tuna is a food consumed daily by the people in Solomon Islands and the demand for tuna is always high when fishers reach the coastal...
Pandemic, climate threats and economic hardship in illegal sea cucumber harvesting on Ontong Java
Honiara – As a result of the growing impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the everyday challenges of climate change, some people of the Malaita Outer Islands (MOI) claim to have had no choice but to...
Malaitan community benefits from local government FAD program
HONIARA – Malaitan communities have already benefited from the provincial government’s initiative to provide coastal communities with fish-aggregating devices (FADs). The initiative was...
Pacific fisheries ministers raise coastal fisheries, marine pollution and climate change concerns: media release
A joint media release of Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS)...
Malaitans reap benefits from conserving marine areas
HONIARA – Communities along the coastline of Malaita Province have transformed degraded natural environments in recent years – and have improved their access to local foods as a...
Japan helping Solomons’ fisheries development
Fish being sold at a Solomon Islands fish market. Photo: RNZ
Pacific officials focus on threatened coastal fisheries
Photo: RNZI/123RF
First Tails logsheet collector uploads the 20,000th
By Andrew Hunt, republished from SPC Fisheries Newsletter, #157 On 1 November 2018, the 20,000th fishing trip logsheet was uploaded using the Tails data entry app, marking a significant milestone...
EU fund targets fish laundering in the Pacific
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 10 September 2018 The European Union says its new funding agreement with marine agencies in the Pacific will help prevent fish laundering in the region. The EU,...
