Tag: Tuna Fisheries

By Patrick Decloitre, RNZ Pacific correspondent French Pacific desk New Caledonia's domestic carrier Air Calédonie is set to launch a biweekly international connection to neighbouring...

Marshall Islands Journal The story of how the Marshall Islands went from being a bystander in commercial fishing in the Pacific to operating the world’s...

By Rahul Bhattarai An allegedly “enslaved” Indonesian fisherman on board Yu Shun 88, a Taiwanese flagged tuna longliner, has now been repatriated from Fiji to...

Lae landowners have given the papua New Guinean government seven days to review existing agreements or they will close the disputed tuna fish canneries....

By Mackenzie Smith in Auckland After the closure of one of its tuna canneries, American Samoa is looking to recover by giving away tonnes of the fish...

News of the return to green card status for Solomon Islands tuna into the European Union market provides much-deserved cause for celebration, says the...

By Lealaiauloto Fatu Tauafiafi in Auckland Seventeen Pacific island countries, including New Zealand and its territory Tokelau, will have the results of a Pacific-wide study...

By Jason Smith A fishing rights dispute that has seen the US-flagged tuna fleet grounded in the Western and Central Pacific has ended with Pacific...

By Lealaiauloto A F Tauafiafi in Auckland At the official opening of the 5th Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop today there was general agreement that...

By Fatu Tauafiafi in Auckland A large contingent of Pacific island country officials will be among delegates from 60 countries meeting in Auckland today to...

By Lucy Craymer in Hong Kong United States boats might soon be allowed back into the world’s best tuna fishing waters after the 17 Pacific...

The Forum Fisheries Agency says a series of meetings in Fiji this week will attempt to find solutions for Pacific nations reeling from the...

Report from Pacific Media Watch in Suva The decision by the United States to withdraw from the 30-year Tuna Treaty with Pacific Island countries will...

A 2015 Greenpeace video about the "out of control" global tuna fishing industry, including the Pacific. Rainbow Warrior skipper Peter Willcox interviewed. Video: Greenpeace Report...

Report by Pacific Media Centre Nauru’s recent announcement that it would ban transshipping practices makes it the third Pacific Island country to do so. Kai...

Abuse at sea – “we were paid nothing at all”. One of a series of testimonials by abused fishermen. Video: Greenpeace Report by Pacific Media...