Generally, fisheries inspectors come into the job from an enforcement or surveillance background, for example from the navy, coastguard or police; after graduating from marine sciences at...
Francisco Blaha
Tropical tuna measure, albacore, compliance monitoring and labour standards head FFA priorities for WCPFC18
The public perception of fisheries tends to focus on operations—boats, weather, accidents, overfishing, illegal fishing. It can be difficult to focus much public attention on the good news side of...
New boats for boarding vessels and monitoring port transhipment arrive in Majuro
The effectiveness of port state measures (PSM) is never as strong as when authorising unloading in the port where the fish leaves the vessel. For PSM to work, one needs a sound system of...
Marshall Islands lodges IUU fishing plan with FAO
The Republic of Marshall Islands has formally lodged its intention to become a party to the Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The Director of...
The illegal, the unreported and the unregulated, and their presence in the WCPO
If you were to speak about “IUU fishing” 10 or 15 years ago, only a few fish nerds would have known what you were saying. Even today, when there is much more known about it, it is still a complex...
Long hours ahead to unload tons of tuna
In much of the world it’s Labour Day, and we salute the workers who crew the tuna fishing vessels. These two fishers from a purse-seine crew are standing on between 700 and 1,700 tons of frozen...
Give a thought for the workers who put tuna on your plate
Meet Salim. He works on a purse-seiner flagged to a distant-water fishing nation operating in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. You may be at home enjoying a leisurely weekend meal of...
Skilled fisheries officers a critical part of effective port state measures, as Marshall Islands charge shows
There is a lot written by many fisheries organisations in the world about the port state measure (PSM), from the FAO PSM Agreement, to the WCPFC PSM CMM and IOTC PSM CMM, to FFA's developing PSM...
