Republished from Marianas Variety, 27 September 2018 MAJURO — Pacific islands fisheries officials have a big agenda for this week’s Technical and Compliance Committee of the Western and Central...
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Stronger Rules Needed for Widely-Used Tuna Fishing Gear in Pacific Ocean
Republished from The Pew Charitable Trusts, 27 September 2018 Managers of the world’s largest tuna fishery—in the western and central Pacific Ocean—have a chance this year to improve the...
WCPFC to consider bluefin catch documentation
Republished from SeafoodSource, 7 September 2018 The fourteenth regular session of the Northern Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) finishes up Friday, 7...
Australia, US, Interpol team up for anti-IUU operation
Republished from Undercurrent News, 6 September 2018 Australia has played host to an international team as part of a wide operation against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the...
Signature Of A Historic Pacific-European Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP)
Republished from SPREP, 5 September 2018 Nauru - 05 September, 2018 – Today, the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), the Pacific Community (SPC), the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment...
Pacific nations’ battle for economic survival: extracting maximum value from tuna resource while protecting the fishery
Economic benefits can come in different forms: royalty returns from selling fishing rights to foreign nations, and providing fish for the domestic market at a time when food security is an issue....
Skipjack tuna prices in Bangkok rebound
Republished from Undercurrent News, 8 August 2018 Skipjack tuna prices for delivery to Bangkok, Thailand during August are increasing again, after hitting a two year-record low last month, industry...
Additional FAD Management Measures Needed in International Fisheries
No tuna regional fisheries management organization has sufficient best practices in place to limit ecological impact Republished from The Pew Charitable Trusts, July 17 2018 Overview Tuna fishermen...
