Stakeholder Participation & Awareness Raising

NEWS: Training in techniques to reduce by-catch of endangered species

Ever wondered how countries negotiate the rules on tuna fishing? How international decisions between the Pacific Islands and the world’s biggest fishing countries are made? What is the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)? Who are its members and what it has done so far? How the WCPFC seeks to control fishing and illegal fishing?

A workshop on regional oceanic fisheries management in the western and central Pacific is to be held at the Tanoa Plaza, Suva, Fiji on 24 – 25 April. The workshop has been organised by WWF South Pacific Office and is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project executed by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).

A regional environmental NGO and an industry NGO will be enrolled into project implementation in order to promote non-governmental stakeholder and public awareness of oceanic fisheries management issues and strengthen NGO participation in oceanic fisheries management as described in Section G of the project document.

PDF files of the OFM Project Newsletter can be downloaded here.