Latest Fishing News
December 10-14, 2018
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PNA Moves Forward With Strategic Plan, Budgets
Ministers representing the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) members met in Honolulu December 7, endorsing the organization’s new strategic plan and adopting their annual budget for 2019.
The meeting was chaired by Nauru's Deputy Minister for Fisheries, the Hon. Ranin Akua.
PNA Ministers reviewed the draft strategic plan that was developed through a series of consultations with PNA officials during 2018. After a presentation of the draft and discussion about the various aspects of the strategic plan, Ministers endorsed the new plan, which will run from 2019 to 2025.
“The new strategic plan endorsed by the Ministers will guide PNA as we take our fisheries management program to the next level,” said PNA CEO Ludwig Kumoru.
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(Source: PNA Tuna).
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US Seeking Higher Catch Limits For Pacific Bigeye Tuna
The United States is seeking a higher catch limit for bigeye tuna by its Hawaii-based longline fishing fleet.
It made the call at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) taking place in Honolulu this week.
The move comes as Pacific Island nations through their two main inter-governmental fishing agencies have made it clear they are not willing to increase the total bigeye catch in Pacific waters.
In its proposal to the 27-member rule-setting body the United States highlighted the significant levels of monitoring and control it maintains in the fishery, outperforming other members of the Commission.
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(Source: Radio New Zealand).
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Pacific Push For Albacore Measures At WCPFC Meeting In Hawaii
Proposals on important measures for albacore tuna – the most important tuna for temperate Pacific countries - are expected to be prioritized by Pacific nations at this year’s Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii next week.
Last year the meeting in Manila, Philippines, failed to reach agreement on Albacore tuna.
Albacore is vital to countries such as Fiji, Vanuatu, Samoa, Tonga and other members of the Tokelau Arrangement.
Because large quantities of albacore are also caught in international waters, the Pacific fishing industry will only be profitable if the WCPFC sets strong fishing rules.
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(Source: Papua New Guinea Today).
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Pacific Nations Resist US Push to Lift Tuna Quota
Pacific island nations have vowed to oppose US efforts to increase its catch limit in the world's largest tuna fishery, saying the proposal does nothing to improve sustainable fishing.
The United States is expected to try to increase its quota for bigeye tuna at a meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) taking place in Honolulu this week.
The meeting brings together 26 nations to determine fishing policy in the Pacific, which accounts for almost 60 percent of the global tuna catch, worth about $6.0 billion annually.
It is mostly made up of small island nations but also includes so-called "distant-water nations" that come from as far afield as Europe, China, the United States, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan to fish Pacific tuna.
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(Source: Yahoo).
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StarKist Could Increase Production in American Samoa
American tuna cannery StarKist is expected to relocate some of its production from California to American Samoa.
This is according to a report received by American Samoa Governor Lolo Moliga after meetings between a delegation from the US territory and the assistant secretary of the interior, Doug Domench, in Washington DC.
However, the move will be dependent on StarKist getting an amendment to its National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit which deals with effluent discharge.
American Samoa's lieutenant governor, Lemanu Peleti Mauga, who led the delegation, said if the amendment was not approved, American Samoa would not only lose 200-300 new jobs but existing jobs, because StarKist production in the territory would have to be reduced.
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(Source: Radio New Zealand).
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SFP Releases 2018 Shelf-Stable Tuna Sector Report
Nearly half of the world’s shelf-stable tuna products are already being sourced in a sustainable or improving manner, with the potential for much more than that, according to the
latest sector report
from
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership (SFP)
.
The report, released today, is the latest sector report focused on
SFP’s Target 75 Initiative
, a global movement launched last year that sets the goal of seeing producers of 75 percent of the world’s seafood operating sustainably or improving toward sustainable production by the close of 2020.
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(Source: Fish Information & Services).
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Pacific Fisheries Bodies Push to Protect Crews
Pacific fisheries bodies want the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission to adopt a resolution to ensure conditions for crew on fishing vessels meet international standards.
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and the Parties to the Nauru Agreement want fishing vessel labour standards adopted by the commission at this week's meeting in Honolulu.
They have written a draft resolution which the FFA said was in line with its goal of enhancing economic benefits for Small Island Developing States from employment on board fishing vessels licensed to fish in their exclusive economic zones.
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(Source: Radio New Zealand).
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