As the Pacific marks World Tuna Day 2025, the region’s journey in transforming tuna fisheries into a model of sustainability offers critical lessons for global ocean stewardship. Over two decades,...
Peter Griffin
OFMP3 update: Pacific Island nations set course towards sustainable, climate-resilient fisheries
It’s been a busy year for the team at the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project with significant progress ranging from fish stock assessments to vessel day scheme training initiatives. For OFMP’s...
Farewelling a Pacific fisheries titan: Hugh Walton
Hugh Halford Walton, 1956-2024 Hugh Halford Walton, a pioneering force in the Pacific fisheries industry, passed away peacefully on October 24 in Nelson, New Zealand, at the age of 68. Hugh served...
Turtle power: Citizen science helping Cook Islands turtle conservation efforts
Holiday snaps of turtles traversing the passages around Rarotonga are being used with image recognition technology to identify sea turtles and get a better handle on their movements around the Cook...
How Pacific Island nations built one of the world’s largest sustainable tuna fisheries
From putting controls on the use of fish-aggregating devices to introducing the Vessel Day Scheme, several innovations have underpinned efforts to build a large and sustainable tuna fishery in the...
Trustworthy ecolabels the key to helping consumers make sustainable tuna purchases
In part 2 of this two-part series in conjunction with the Marine Stewardship Council, we look at the eco-labelling practices helping to maintain sustainable tuna stocks. Wherever you shop in the...
Harvest strategies, electronic monitoring crucial to healthy Pacific tuna stocks
In part 1 of this two-part series in conjunction with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), we look at the harvest strategies and eco-labelling practices helping to maintain sustainable tuna stocks....
The tech helping tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
The four key tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific have been independently verified as sustainable, which is a great position to be in for Pacific Island nations. But keeping those...
