The 18th and latest annual meeting of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), held virtually in December 2021, reconfirmed the world’s largest tuna fishery continues to...
The 18th and latest annual meeting of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), held virtually in December 2021, reconfirmed the world’s largest tuna fishery continues to...
Nuku’alofa – The Pew Charitable Trusts has called for better management of the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. In a statement released to the 18th regular session of the...
Republished from SeafoodSource, 29 November 2021 The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) 2021 meeting begins on 29 November, as it faces the expiration of its Tropical Tuna...
HONIARA, 30 November 2021 – Making sure the tuna fisheries of the Western and Central Pacific remain sustainable is one of the driving aims of Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) members...
Honiara – As discussions on a new Tropical Tuna Measure (TTM) loom, Pacific island countries need to push more to get the international community to consider the impacts of climate change on the...
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...
A process for negotiating a new Tropical Tuna Measure has been agreed by the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), paving the way for adoption at the end of next year. At this...
By Chris Chase, republished from SeafoodSource, 8 December 2020 The Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) has failed to reach a consensus on the management of tropical tunas by one vote –...
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...
The collapse of negotiations to regulate and manage tuna stocks in the Eastern Pacific Ocean last week is cause for international concern. The ensuing lack of management oversight by the...