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...
monitoring control and survelliance (MCS)
Pacific-licensed vessels top IUU fishing list in the region by misreporting catch
HONIARA, 14 February 2022 – A recent illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing report released last December revealed that Pacific licensed vessels or fleets are heavily involved in IUU...
Pacific flavour for international MCS introductory guides
Generally, fisheries inspectors come into the job from an enforcement or surveillance background, for example from the navy, coastguard or police; after graduating from marine sciences at...
New Guardian-class patrol boat a welcome asset to tackle illegal fishing in Solomon Islands
Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare and Australia’s High Commissioner to Solomon Islands His Excellency Dr Lachlan Strahan inspects RSIPV Taro at the commissioning ceremony in Honiara....
Fisheries operation celebrates 20 years of protecting Pacific waters: media release
HONIARA, 4 June 2021 – Operation Tui Moana, a regional fisheries surveillance operation covering the exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Cook Islands, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga and Tuvalu as...
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...
Coordination and commitment during regional fisheries surveillance operation: media release
Honiara, 3 September 2020 – A fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance operation in the Pacific concludes this week, with excellent cooperation demonstrated between nations despite the...
FFA: Aerial surveillance critical for monitoring of our EEZs — media release
HONIARA, 25 August 2020 – Fisheries ministers at their 17th Forum Fisheries Committee meeting on 6–7 August recognized the importance of aerial surveillance, including through the Pacific...
FFC adopts the FFA regional PSM framework: media release
HONIARA, 5 August 2020 – The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) has successfully sanctioned the regional Port State Measure (PSM) framework at its 114th meeting, held in...
