Home

High greenhouse gas emissions will drastically alter distribution of key tuna species.

Small Pacific Island states depend on their commercial fisheries for food supplies and economic health. But our new research shows climate change will dramatically alter tuna stocks in the tropical Pacific, with potentially severe consequences for the people who depend on them.

The Marine Stewardship Council’s (MSC) is warning that its certification of 22 tuna fisheries in the Western Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) could be suspended if regional fisheries management organizations fail to act on measures to keep the fisheries harvested at sustainable levels.

Pacific Island heads of states and fisheries ministers have agreed that more needs to be done to protect our oceans from ongoing threats and exploitation. The ministers made this commitment at the 5th France-Oceania Summit, which was held virtually on 19 July from Papeete in Tahiti.

After six years, the second Oceanic Fisheries Management Project in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has come to an end...The aim of the project was to help the small island developing states of the WCPO ensure the sustainable management of their oceanic fisheries and to better unders

New Zealand has signed an agreement of more than US$12 million with the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA). The five-year arrangement aimed to support the sustainable management of the Pacific's offshore fisheries.

In his last email to his family, Eritara Aati Kaierua told them he loved them and apologised for not being in touch sooner.

Since long before the steel-hulled fishing boats from foreign countries arrived in the South Pacific its people have had their own systems for sharing the ocean’s catches.

If you were to speak about “IUU fishing” 10 or 15 years ago, only a few fish nerds would have known what you were saying. Even today, when there is much more known about it, it is still a complex concept to grasp.

The COVID-19 pandemic is still preventing the deployment of fisheries observers on purse vessels as the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission once again extended the suspension of fisheries observer coverage in the region for three months …