Honiara, 21 December 2020 – Pacific Island countries have worked with fishing nations to secure crucial protection measures next year for an industry worth over US$1 billion to local...
COVID-19
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...
FFA fisheries ministers progress observer and crew safety and longline fisheries development
Republished from FFA Trade and Industry News, volume 13, issue 4, July–August 2020 The seventeenth annual Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee Ministers Meeting (FFC Min17) was held on 6–7...
Pacific cooperation ensures fisheries continue despite COVID-19: media release
Honiara, 4 September 2020 – Member countries of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) are actively working together to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 being transmitted through...
Fisheries ministers strengthen commitment to regional cooperation amid pandemic: media release
HONIARA, 8 August 2020 – Fisheries Ministers from member countries of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) have expressed serious concern about the unprecedented impacts of the...
Report indicates Pacific tuna fisheries weathering COVID-19 well
By Bernadette Carreon The fishing effort in the tuna-rich waters of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) does not appear to have been significantly impeded by the COVID-19 crisis,...
Tuna observers likely to stay off boats as concern for health continues
By Taobo Amon Tebikau (Radio Kiribati News) To protect people’s health, Kiribati and other Pacific countries are likely to extend the current strict rule that suspends all purse-seine fishing boats...
COVID-19 impacts lead agenda for FFA Fisheries Ministerial meeting: media release
HONIARA, 5 August 2020 – THE first ever Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial meeting to be held online opens tomorrow, with the impacts of COVID-19 on the regional tuna fishery at the top of...
In Solomons, some fisheries sectors thrive while others struggle under pandemic rules
HONIARA – In the provinces of Solomon Islands, a rising interest in fishing by people in coastal communities is helping keep the country’s fishing industry active amid the COVID-19...
Initial economic impact of COVID-19 reported for Micronesia, Marshall Islands, and Palau: media release
WASHINGTON, 23 June 2020 – US Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary, Insular and International Affairs Douglas W. Domenech today announced the publication of three technical notes from...
