Fiji inaugurates new monitoring centre
Efforts to combat IUU fishing have been significantly strengthened with the inauguration of a new, Fisheries Monitoring Centre at Suva in Fiji. This initiative is part of a larger regional…
Monitoring squid fleet transit
The Chilean navy has been keeping a close eye on traffic through the Strait of Magellan as the largely Chinese fleet of squid jiggers transits from the South Pacific to…
Demanding action to close the net on illegal fishing in the Pacific
Groups working with more than 150 companies are demanding collective efforts in advance of the G7 Hiroshima Summit. Members of the coalition – the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST),…
Expanding first drifting FAD partnership
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Hawai‘i and Palmyra have announced the expansion of the first drifting Fish Aggregation Device (dFAD) partnership with commercial purse seine tuna vessels in the Pacific Ocean.…
Celebrating tuna’s significance in Pacific cuisine
The Tuna Bites campaign, launched by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the Pacific Community (SPC), celebrates the UN World Tuna Day and Pacific Tuna Month. The campaign,…
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is found to have had a negligible impact on the conservation of skipjack and bigeye tuna in the WCPO
Questioning the effectiveness of MPAs in conserving tuna stocks
The first-ever quantitative evaluation of the contribution of no-take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to the conservation of tropical tunas in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has been published…
