By Pita Ligaiula in Manila, Philippines MANILA, 06 DECEMBER 2017 (PACNEWS) ---- Japan has come out in defence of its proposals at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting...
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
Japan, here we come: flights open
By NETANI RIKA, Pasay City, Philippines DIRECT flights from Fiji to Japan are expected to boost sales of tuna from the Pacific and create larger profits for regional exporters. Fiji Airways is...
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...
Need to control longline fishing on the high seas
By Pita Ligaiula in Manila, Philippines MANILA, 05 DECEMBER 2017 (PACNEWS) ----The Pacific has called for the control of longline fishing on the high seas at the Western and Central Pacific...
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...
Dire warning for Pacific’s domestic albacore fishery
The survival of the Pacific’s domestic tuna longline fishery is at stake without more effective management of fishing in the High Seas – those areas outside of the waters of the region’s 200-mile...
Pacific island fish migrating to cooler seas
Republished from SciDev. Net, 5 December 2017 Pacific island countries could lose up to 80 per cent of fisheries Most countries in Pacific depend on fish for food and livelihoods Yellowfin and...
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)...
Struggle on the high seas: Small nations suffer huge burden
Republished from Islands Business WCPFC14, Manila-- KIRIBATI already faces the huge burden of rising sea levels which threatens its very existence. With little land resources on which to grow food,...
