fisheries management
Tonga’s Ocean Plan set for 2021 start

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,...

Marshalls fisheries department updating tuna plan with New Zealand aid

Marshalls fisheries department updating tuna plan with New Zealand aid

Purse seine fishing vessels have crowded Majuro’s lagoon since late May as low world market prices and over-stocks of tuna at Bangkok canneries have slowed the transshipment process. Majuro has been the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port for the past several years.
Photo: Marianas Variety/Garry Venus,Francisco Blaha

Transparency for Tuna

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...