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,...
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Living the dream: Joyce Samuelu Ah-Leong
FFA’s Moana Voices series on women shaping the future of oceanic fisheries is edited, researched and produced by Lisa Williams. This interview for Moana Voices 2021 edition is with Joyce Samuelu...
IATTC leaves tropical tuna unmanaged as meeting fails to reach consensus by one vote
By Chris Chase, republished from SeafoodSource, 8 December 2020 The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) has failed to reach a consensus on the management of tropical tunas by one vote –...
Manual on design, technology and use of anchored FADs updated
A new technical manual on the design of and use of anchored fish-aggregating devices has been released for the Pacific Islands. The technical manual covers standard designs for different...
Chief Justice of the Solomon Islands and FFA Director-General co-host the first Pacific regional judicial symposium to promote responsibility in fisheries
Market wharves of Honiara, Solomon Islands. Photo: Francisco Blaha
Japan helping Solomons’ fisheries development
Fish being sold at a Solomon Islands fish market. Photo: RNZ
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
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...
Stronger Rules Needed for Widely-Used Tuna Fishing Gear in Pacific Ocean
Republished from The Pew Charitable Trusts, 27 September 2018 Managers of the world’s largest tuna fishery—in the western and central Pacific Ocean—have a chance this year to improve the...
