U.S. House committee moves South Pacific Tuna Treaty Act forward

The U.S. House’s Natural Resources Committee has approved legislation that would finally bring America’s regulations into alignment with amendments to the South Pacific Tuna Treaty signed in 2016. The 1987 treaty

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FFA to try again in PNG for U.S. treaty money distribution plan

Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency member countries have been unable to conclude an agreement for distribution of US$60 million a year that the United States government has promised for fishing access by the

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PNG Cannery may generate K1.2 billion

Papua New Guinea Government and corporate partner RD Corporation will start talks on a fish cannery which is expected to generate about K1.2 billion (US$335 million) in annual revenue, says Prime Minister James Marape.

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PNG National Fisheries Authority clarifies tuna supply issues

Papua New Guinea’s National Fisheries Authority (NFA) says tuna supply issues facing the processors in Lae have nothing to do with the lack of fish stocks in the waters. It added that the issues resulted from supply

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PNG cannery closes, 5000 out of work

Majestic Seafood, makers of canned tuna products in Lae, Papua New Guinea has shut down operations as a result of a shortfall in fish supply. Over 5,000 staff of the company are now redundant. Emmanuel Pari, speaking on

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WTO fisheries agreement awaits ratification

The Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) says members need to move faster on ratifying a fisheries agreement that would ban subsidies for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.  “We need

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Fiji tuna symposium considers industry’s future

Ten years ago, Suva port was one of the region’s most preferred ports for foreign vessels fishing in the western and central Pacific ocean, says the president of the Fiji Fishing Industry Association (FFIA). Speaking

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Tuna cannery still in the pipeline in Vanuatu

The outgoing Director General (DG) of Vanuatu’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Forestry, Fisheries and Biosecurity (MALFFB), Moses Amos, has confirmed that the management of Sino-Van plans to set up a small

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Marine protected areas don’t help tuna, new paper shows

A new study published in Frontiers in Marine Science has found that Kiribati’s Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA), which banned all fishing in 2015, has not had a significant impact on the skipjack and bigeye tuna

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Are Marine Protected Areas effective for tuna conservation?

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 in Frontiers

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U.S. considers Solomon Islands tuna plant investment

The United States is considering investing in a tuna-canning facility under construction in the Solomon Islands. The United States, Australia, and New Zealand have been competing with China for influence in the Pacific.

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Marshall Islands sees tuna rebound

Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) records show that tuna transshipment in Majuro rebounded following the disastrous first year of Covid in 2020 when transshipment plummeted by 60 percent compared to

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