FFA Media release: The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) on Wednesday launched a major upgrade and development to their monitoring and surveillance efforts, with two new systems built for...
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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....
WCPO countries getting greater share of skipjack tuna: SPC assessment
Locals’ access to skipjack purse-seine tuna fishery of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has increased. The 2020 tuna fisheries assessment report, conducted by the Pacific Community...
Transhipment challenges in the WCPO
Not many Pacific Island women work on fishing vessels, but a young Fijian woman has found a way to support the work of fishers such as her brother and cousins so they can continue to make a living...
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...
Tighter controls on the way for plastic pollution in the WCPO
Pacific island countries are behind a study to gauge the amount of plastic waste that is dumped at sea by tuna fishing vessels working in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO). The study...
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...
New technologies promise monitoring breakthrough for transhipment at sea
Republished from FFA Trade and Industry News, volume 13, issue 4, July–August 2020 Technologies such as vessel monitoring systems, onboard electronic catch monitoring and blockchain traceability...
Fisheries observer safety a key focus, as FFA wraps up annual meeting: media release
HONIARA, 22 June 2020 – Initiatives to improve job prospects and safety at sea for fishing observers has been a key focus of the 114th Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC114) meeting. The meeting,...
Pacific countries gather to plan for the future of oceanic fisheries management
HONIARA, 24 October 2019 – The 14 member states of the Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (OFMP2) gathered on Tuesday to plan for the final year of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) initiative....
