Tag: Tuna Treaty
US, Pacific countries resolve treaty deadlock – fleet fishing again
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...
Pacific countries offer to compromise over tuna fishing deadlock
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...
Forum Fisheries Agency seeks answers to American withdrawal in 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...
US withdrawal from Pacific tuna treaty will take effect January 2017
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...
