As he did in 2020, Fatu Tauafiafi caught up with fisheries expert, Mr Stan Crothers in December 2021, to discuss key WCPFC18 outcomes from the perspective of the PNA plus Tokelau bloc (PNA+). Mr...
Fatu Tauafiafi
Fisheries and climate change: A Pacific perspective
As resource owners of the world’s largest and most valuable tuna fisheries, Pacific members zoomed into the 18th annual Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC18) meeting in December...
Tuna Commission weathers COVID-19, Pacific countries add climate change to tuna leadership role
The 18th and latest annual meeting of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), held virtually in December 2021, reconfirmed the world’s largest tuna fishery continues to...
Fisheries officials the key to unlock the Pacific’s multi-billion-dollar potential
The Pacific Ocean is vast. It is so big you can fit not one, not two, but five of Earth’s moons inside it and have room left over. If that doesn’t sound impressive, then how about fitting the whole...
Success of 2021 WCPFC meeting could be hampered by ongoing travel restrictions
The year 2020 will be remembered for the many different ways the COVID-19 pandemic dominated human lives. COVID swaggered; blazed. Seemingly overnight, it carved a one-in-a lifetime transboundary...
How the Pacific fisheries sector managed to navigate COVID-19
In a year like no other, the work to harvest and sustainably manage the world’s largest tuna fishery in the Western Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has not been spared the ravages of severe acute...
Set in stone: 2021 rules and regulations for tuna fishing in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
The collapse of negotiations to regulate and manage tuna stocks in the Eastern Pacific Ocean last week is cause for international concern. The ensuing lack of management oversight by the...
Climate change resolution tops list of wins for Pacific nations at 16th Tuna Commission meeting
Article highlights: Climate change resolution adopted conservation management measures (CMM) endorsed on the non-target species of mobulid rays and sharks FFA summarises WCPFC16 outcomes for...
