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...
Vessel Day Scheme (VDS)
Solomon Islands hopeful for a better 2021 despite pandemic, climate change cutting tuna revenue
SolTuna is a leading exporter of loin and canned tuna products which also contributes more revenue into the Tuna Industry. Pictured are canned products being displayed in the recent World Tuna Day...
Pacific Ocean’s hidden figure: Sangaalofa Tooki Clark
FFA’s Moana Voices series on women shaping the future of oceanic fisheries is edited, researched and produced by Lisa Williams. This interview for Moana Voices 2021 edition is...
Fisheries officials the key to unlock the Pacific’s multi-billion-dollar potential
The Pacific Ocean is vast. It is so big you can fit not one, not two, but five of Earth’s moons inside it and have room left over. If that doesn’t sound impressive, then how about fitting the whole...
A shared vision for self-determination: the PNA story in print
A Solomon Islander who is a household name in the Western and Central Pacific tuna industry has written the story of how the Davids of the industry prevailed against the Goliaths. Fishing for...
PNG industry, Frabelle hope MSC certification can boost processing sector
Scene from the port of Alotau, Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Marina Riley/Shutterstock.com.
Transparency for Tuna
Republished from Project Syndicate, 30 October 2018 Global fish stocks are in decline, but a new tuna management scheme by the Federated States of Micronesia offers a blueprint for recovery. By...
Making Progress in Sustainable Oceanic Fisheries—UNDP Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Management II
Republished from IW:LEARN, 22 June 2018 IW:LEARN is the Global Environment Facility's (GEF) International Waters Learning Exchange and Resource Network. The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency...
Seven PNA members extend vessel day scheme
Republished from Radio New Zealand, 15 December 2017 Seven of the eight members of the fishing arrangement called the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, or PNA, are extending their Vessel Day...
Pacific dilemma – How to fish the world’s biggest ocean when tuna are scarce
Republished from Matangi Tonga Online, 6 December 2017, by Emmanuel Samoglou, PACMAS Different approaches towards managing a heavily depleted fish stock have emerged between two Pacific nations. In...
