Wallis and Futuna is counting the number of lost and stranded fish-aggregating devices (FADs) that wash up on its coasts so it can calculate the damage they cause. The campaign is being run by the...
Claire Heath
Women slowly gaining access to more jobs in tuna fisheries, but remain mostly in traditional roles
Small changes are slowly resulting in opportunities for women to take up a wider range of jobs in the tuna fisheries. However, researchers have found that most of the options for women remain...
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...
SPC outlines ways to improve women’s involvement in fisheries
SPC has published short reports into ways that women can have a greater say in fisheries management in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu. The reports are a snapshot of information on and analysis of...
Tuna carry evidence of the human causes of global heating
A group of 22 scientists has discovered that tuna carry inside them clues to how climate heating caused by humans is changing ocean water and types and quantities of plankton – and...
Sharks and rays easy to identify in new field guide
A new field guide should help crew of tuna vessels and observers to correctly identify 44 kinds of sharks and rays that are accidentally caught during tuna fishing in the Western and...
Nearly 17,000 tuna tagged in latest research cruise
More than 16,600 tuna were tagged in a recent scientific tagging expedition in ocean generally north of Papua New Guinea. The voyage targeted skipjack tuna, which makes up 70% of the volume of tuna...
Rays to be released while still in the water: postcard from WCPFC16
Tuna fishers will have to do everything they can to save rays, including the magnificent manta ray, that are unintentionally caught during fishing operations. Several species of mobulid rays, which...
