News on catch and harvest in the region
- Noro first e-port in the Pacific introduces digital catch documents and tracing, TunaPacific, July 2021
- The mice that roared: how eight tiny countries took on foreign fishing fleets, Christopher Pala, Guardian, June 2021
- Why the worlds most fertile fishing ground is facing a unique and dire threat, Michael Field, Guardian, June 2021
- Papua New Guinea tuna-fishing efforts uninterrupted by COVID-19, by Bernadette Carreon, SeafoodSource, May 2021
- How eight Pacific island states are saving the worlds tuna, Foreign Policy, March 2021
- Sharing knowledge and building collaboration to guide research and development on fish-aggregating devices in the Pacific, Fisheries Newsletter number 163 (SeptemberDecember 2020)
- Lessons learned from deploying 380 fish-aggregation devices, Fisheries Newsletter number 163 (SeptemberDecember 2020)
- COVID thrusts local marine scientist into high seas adventure, SPC web stories, Pacific Community, August 2020. See also the second and third instalments of this story, Giulias tuna tagging adventure continues, September 2020, and Giulias tuna tagging adventure, October 2020.
- Long hours ahead to unload tons of tuna, TunaPacific, May 2020
- Give a thought for the workers who put tuna on your plate, TunaPacific, April 2020
- Manual on design, technology and use of anchored FADs updated, TunaPacific, March 2020
- Tuna Commission endorses work plan to manage South Pacific albacore sustainably, TunaPacific, December 2019
- Western and Central Pacific stumbles on tuna targets, Islands Business, December 2019
- Safeguarding the worlds largest tuna fishery, Climate Extremes Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence, October 2019. This page contains a descriptive video of the journey of drifting FADs across the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.
- Tens of thousands of tuna-attracting devices are floating around the Pacific, TunaPacific, September 2019
- Moving to TAC system, Japanese fisheries managers get lessons from US experts, TunaPacific, March 2019
- PNA Office to expand Vessel Day Scheme and step up management of FADs, PNA, January 2019
- FSM government, fisheries sectors learn about biodegradable FADs, TunaPacific, January 2019
- Tuna Commission ends with positive measures in place, TunaPacific, December 2018
- Pacific Islands happy with tuna commission outcomes at WCPFC15, Radio New Zealand, December 2018
- Kiribati, the Pacific’s biggest tuna nation, backs FFA calls in tough tuna talks, TunPacific, December 2018
- Harvest strategies part of decisions on tuna stocks at WCFPC15, TunaPacific, December 2018
- PNA research reveals secret life of FADs, TunaPacific, December 2018
- Pacific fisheries leaders highlight Tuna Commission action, including extension of FAD ban, TunaPacific, December 2018
- Tonga pushes hard on its priorities at 15th Tuna Commission meeting, TunaPacific, December 2018
- Stronger rules needed for widely used tuna-fishing gear in Pacific Ocean, TunaPacific, September 2018
- Additional FAD management measures needed in international fisheries, TunaPacific, July 2018
- Workshop series aims to boost harvest strategy for tuna management, SeafoodSource, April 2018
- Tuna harvest strategies focus of WCPFC workshop in Fiji, Undercurrent News, February 2018
- Harvest strategy for tuna a high priority, Fiji Times, February 2018
- Heres why your sustainable tuna is also unsustainable,The Conversation, October 2017
- Tuna resource owners meet in Majuro, PNA, April 2017
- Sustainably caught tuna tonnage forecast to double in 2017, PNA, December 2016
- PNA pushing harvest control strategy at Pacific Tuna Commission, Radio New Zealand, October 2016
- Harvest control rules, reference points, and monitoring, control and surveillance on the menu for Pacific nations ahead of annual tuna meet, FFA, November 2016
- Small steps towards harvest strategy and managing stocks beats no steps, says WCPFC13 chair, FFA, May 2016
- PNA tuna fishing nations agree to keep vessel day management scheme, Saving Seafood, April 2016
