Over the past 25 years, successful Pacific Ocean fisheries partnerships supported the world’s largest tuna fishery—nearly 60 per cent of global tuna catch—to transform from a potentially...
Jenni Metcalfe
E-monitoring: potential game changer for managing Pacific longline tuna fisheries
Longliners in the Solomon Islands. Photo: Francisco Blaha.
Pacific fisheries officials plan for sustainable and profitable longline fisheries
Fisheries Managers from across the Pacific met in Honiara last week to discuss strategies for ensuring sustainable and profitable longline fisheries in the Pacific. Although scientists currently...
Pacific countries congratulate OFMP2 on progress & support extension to 2020
Honiara, 1 November 2018 "Our Territory, being part of New Zealand, does not usually directly benefit from international funding, but this region-wide initiative has really benefited us," said the...
Tuna stock assessment training workshops in Noumea
The participants at this week's tuna stock assessment workshops held at the Pacific Community (SPC) offices in Noumea, New Caledonia. The Oceanic Fisheries Management Project works with SPC to...
Pacific tuna fisheries sustainable but need to consider threats, especially from climate change
The foresight of Pacific Islands country leaders in the late ’90s means that the tropical tuna stocks in the Western and Central Pacific today are being fished sustainably, despite pressures from...
SustainPacFish – New web portal links to information on sustaining and conserving Pacific oceanic fisheries
SustainPacFish is a new web portal designed to provide Pacific fisheries managers and industry with links to the latest information about measures to conserve and manage Pacific fisheries,...
The Pacific shone at the Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum – US
MEDIA RELEASE, PACIFIC TRADE INVEST Three Pacific Island sustainable seafood businesses were among 40 finalists from across the globe that pitched to investors at the Fish 2.0 Innovation Forum at...
