Pacific trials new high tech tools to combat IUU fishing and complement its existing suite of monitoring, control and surveillance tools
Tag: fisheries
Fisheries and climate change: A Pacific perspective
Climate justice is critical issue for Tuna industry as Pacific countries will be “getting less revenue, through no fault of their own, because they haven’t made many of the emissions.” writes Fatu Tauafiafi
Large crowd show strong opposition to re-opening Palau National Marine Sanctuary
A large number of individuals opposed to the reopening of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary to long-line and purse seine fishing
Pacific-licensed vessels top IUU fishing list in the region by misreporting catch
A report revealed that Pacific licensed vessels or fleets are heavily involved in IUU fishing and dominated by misreporting
Women fish too: invisible women in tuna industries
The role of women in the Tuna industry need essential recognition to break the bias that the tuna fishing industry is a man’s world, writes Kate Barclay
WCPO countries getting greater share of skipjack tuna: SPC assessment
A report shows that more than half the vessels in the skipjack purse-seine fishery of the WCPO are flagged to or chartered by SIDS
Pacific fisheries leaders emphasise building resilience and strengthening recovery in fisheries
Pacific fisheries leaders recognised the urgency to strengthen recovery and build resilience as the region struggles from COVID-19 alongside climate change effects on fisheries
Kiribati receives aquaculture training from China while opening protected area to commercial fishing
The Chinese province of Hubei has sent experts to the Pacific island nation of Kiribati to conduct training in commercial aquaculture.
WCPFC tuna fishery needs better management: Pew
Pew urged WCPFC to maintain existing objectives for the tropical tunas while it developed harvest strategies and improved monitoring of important stocks
Tropical tuna measure, albacore, compliance monitoring and labour standards head FFA priorities for WCPFC18
FFA will not support actions that will jeopardise the tuna stocks that Pacific Island rely upon and call for WCPFC18 to cut the catch of South Pacific albacore