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Forum Fisheries Agency
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa’s director of Marine and Wildlife Resources Taotasi Archie Soliai is ecstatic that American Samoa has been granted observer status in the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).
The Deputy Director General of the FFA, Dr Pio Manoa, informed Soliai that the 135th...
Pohnpei, FSM — Pacific fisheries ministers want to see negotiations to end harmful fisheries subsidies.
Meeting this week in Pohnpei, the ministers and senior government officials say the subsidies can be a constraint on the ability of small island states to develop their own fisheries.
Of the...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Pacific Island fisheries leaders want the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, or Tuna Commission, to start effectively managing transshipments on the high seas.
The existing Commission measure governing transshipment was adopted in 2009 and is intended for review...
Leaders Summit, NAURU — Reaping greater economic benefit from regional fisheries is expected to be high on the agenda at the Pacific Islands Forum leaders' summit in Nauru this week.
Increasing the yield of the Western and Central Pacific tuna fishery shows the greatest potential for growth.
The...