The Palau government’s case filed against the Philippine fish carrier, Gene 8, was dismissed last week due to lack of government witnesses. The Attorney General’s Office filed a motion asking for a...
IUU fishing
Bad boy: Vietnam earns villain status
By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, the Philippines DESPITE its promise to address the issue of illegal fishing the Pacific, Vietnam has found itself out in the cold at the Western and Central Pacific...
Vietnam asked to step up efforts to stop marauding blue boats
By Bernadette Carreon, Manila Manila, Philippines ---- Vietnam is again under pressure to explain what measures it will put in place to stop the small blue boats poaching the reef resources of the...
Closing the fisheries loopholes
Authorities battle with e-monitoring By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, the Philippines WHEN the Pacific met its international partners at the 12th Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Bali,...
Blue boats are back, warns New Caledonia
By RONALD TOITO’ONA, In Manila AFTER a lull in sightings of illegal Vietnamese Blue Boats in the Pacific seas, New Caledonia has warned Pacific States that the illegal fishing boats are back. The...
Vietnamese blue boats incursions raised anew at WCPFC
by Bernadette H. Carreon WCPFC14, Manila, Philippines - Illegal fishing by boats from Vietnam continues to be a problem in the Pacific, with New Caledonia and Federated States of Micronesia (FSM)...
Hard decisions now: Fiji sets sights on distant water fishing nations
by Netani Rika, Islands Business Dec 3, 2017, WCPFC14, Manila--PACIFIC tuna is under threat from the world’s largest fishing nations including China, Japan and South Korea. And the inaction of the...
Calls for ban on rampant tuna transhipment in the high seas
by Pita Ligaiula , PacNEWS 4 Dec 2017, WCPFC14, Manila-- Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) attending the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) have called for the ban of...
Vietnam’s blue boats unacceptable: New Caledonia
by Netani Rika, Manila French navy intercepts Vietnam's reef pillagers WCPFC14, MANILA-- THE French Navy has intercepted two Vietnamese blue boats fishing illegally in New Caledonian waters. This is...
Calls for ban on rampant tuna transshipment in the high seas
Republished from WWF-Pacific, 3 December 2017 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) attending the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) have called for the ban of transshipment of...
