By RONALD TOITO’ONA, Pacificmedia@WCPFC13 The Pacific Ocean and those who depend on its fish face a growing crisis, according to Greenpeace. So the environmental organisation has decided to take a...
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
PNA bid for more control on longline fishing
By RONALD TOITO’ONA, Pacific Media@WCPFC13 The 8 Pacific nations and Tokelau that make up the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) are seeking more control over the little-scrutinised longline...
Pacific Tuna Commission 2016: focus on the shared goals to progress sustainable fisheries
Pacific nations and global fishing powers meeting in Nadi, Fiji at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission 13th regular session have been urged to get over their differences in the...
PNG signs tuna Treaty with US, hopes cordial relationship continues under Trump
By Rita N-Tudia, Pacificmedia@WCPFC13 Papua New Guinea hopes the spirit in which a multilateral tuna fisheries deal that it signed with the United States today will continue with the new US...
PNG goes the next step on the US Tuna Treaty
By Rosalyn Albaniel-Evara, Pacific Media@WCPFC13 Papua New Guinea has again congratulated the United States and Pacific Island Parties to the 28-year old South Pacific Tuna Treaty for successfully...
Chair of Tuna Commission urges members to accept small steps as valuable progress
By Viola Ulakai, Pacific Media@WCPFC13 Tuna Commission stakeholders need to be open minded as the rigidity of the past has not always served the Commission well, according to Commission Chair Rhea...
Big jump in aid to Tonga after US Treaty signing
Viola Ulukai, Pacific Media@WCPFC13 Tonga will get a boost in aid associated with the longstanding US Pacific Tuna treaty after it joined other Pacific Forum nations in signing a 6-year extension to...
Innovative small-scale tuna canning coming to PNG
By Rosalyn Albaniel-Evara, Pacific Media@WCPFC13 A mini-canning unit small enough to fit on a kitchen table is set to provide jobs for families and small businesses in PNG. The secretariat of the...
Hope for Tonga’s struggling tuna industry as Pacific makes albacore one its top priorities.
By Viola Ulakai, Pacific Media@WCPFC13 Albacore tuna will be one of the top priorities for Pacific nations as they prepare to meet global fishing powers at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries...
Tuna Commission told to focus on enforcing its high seas fishing rules
By Rita N-Tudia, Pacificmedia@WCPFC13 Enforcing high seas fishing rules should be the top priority for the body responsible for protecting the Pacific’s valuable tuna. The CEO of one of the region’s...
