Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 26-member Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) reached some momentous decisions at its recent annual conference in Suva.
That's the view of a member of environmental watchdog group, the Pew Charitable Trusts' international fisheries project, Glen...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Top of the agenda at next week’s annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) in Suva, Fiji is updating the way conservation management on the high seas is conducted and transmitted.
Project lead for the Pew Charitable Trusts, Glen...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The 20th Regular Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission meeting convened in the Cook Islands in a meeting that ran past 3:30 a.m. Saturday morning.
Although the meeting resulted in a revised tropical tuna conservation and management measure (CMM...
Da Nang, VIETNAM — The annual meeting of the countries involved in the world's largest and most lucrative tuna fishery concluded in Vietnam on Saturday.
The 26 members of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission constitute resource owning island nations and foreign countries whose...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Department of Marine Wildlife and Resources director, Taotasi Archie Soliai, continues his plea for US tuna boats to be given Small Island Developing States (SIDS) status.
Taotasi made the comments at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries...
Honolulu, HAWAII — A drive to increase Hawaii longliners’ bigeye tuna quota has again fallen short at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission.
The U.S. delegation to the WCPFC requested that its longline bigeye quota be increased by 3,000 metric tons, noting stocks appeared to not be...
Majuro, MARSHALL ISLANDS — Every year, a potential showdown looms between Pacific island countries and distant water fishing nations at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) that happens early next month - over one issue or another.
This year is no...
Honolulu, HAWAII — Pacific Islands fisheries leaders are satisfied with the outcomes of the just completed meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, or Tuna Commission, in Hawaii.
There have been agreements to maintain the current limits on the tuna catch, minimum labour...
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...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Fishing on high seas and fish aggregating devices (FAD) management are among the concerns and issues for the US-based American Tuna Association (ATA) that are expected to be shared at this week’s 15th Meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission which...