From Aspirations to Inspirations: The Marshall Islands Fishing Story

The story of how the Marshall Islands went from being a bystander in commercial fishing in the Pacific to operating the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port, two fish processing facilities, a purse seine vessel net

Read More

Milestone book features the Marshall Islands fishing story

How the Marshall Islands went from being a bystander in commercial fishing in the Pacific to operating the world’s busiest tuna transshipment port, two fish processing facilities, a purse seine vessel net repair

Read More

Marshall Islands move into commercial fish farming

‘Moi’ fish farms to expand The history of the Marshall Islands is littered with so many failed attempts to turn aquaculture and fish farming ideas into commercially viable businesses that it is a wonder

Read More

“My fish is your fish” Pacific solidarity in the fight for nuclear justice

'My fish is your fish' is a reminder of the responsibility all Pacific Islanders have to each other as Marshall Islands continues to grapple with its nuclear

Read More

Pacific Island leaders unite at Honiara Summit to strengthen regional tuna fisheries

Papua New Guinea Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Jelta Wong, has addressed the gathering of Pacific Island leaders to describe the East New Britain Initiative (ENBi) during a weeklong Honiara Fisheries

Read More

ANALYSIS: Marshall Islands at high risk of cyber attack

Pacific Island countries are ripe for cyber-attacks. With few resources, even fewer skilled information security personnel, and low levels of internet awareness among populations, island nations are easy targets for

Read More

Climate change is robbing Pacific islands of another resource: Tuna

Fourteen Pacific Island nations will receive US$107 million to adapt their tuna-dependent economies as climate change pushes the fish farther from their shores, the Green Climate Fund announced Tuesday. The fund’s

Read More

UN rights council examines nuclear legacy consequences in the Marshall Islands

The UN Human Rights Council convened a dialogue on Friday to examine the nuclear testing legacy in the Marshall

Read More

Marshall Islands calls for global accountability on Climate, Nuclear testing, and Human rights at UNGA

The President of Marshall Islands, Dr Hilda Heine delivered a powerful address at the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), urging world leaders to confront the most pressing issues of climate change, nuclear

Read More

Marshallese women call for nuclear justice

Women continue to fight for justice, 70 years after the first nuclear tests by the United States caused devastation on the people and environment of the Marshall Islands. And as Pacific women gathered on Majuro to

Read More

PALM preview: fisheries research vessels and Fukushima

The government plans to provide one fisheries research vessel free of charge to each of the four Pacific Island nations of Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, it has been learned.  Prime

Read More

22 fishermen rescued as vessel sinks in Tuvalu waters

Twenty-two fishermen were dramatically rescued on Sunday morning, minutes before their vessel sank in the waters of the South Pacific.  The FV Marielle, a purse seine fishing vessel owned by the Caroline Fisheries

Read More