FFA administers and provides support for negotiations and meetings regarding several fishing treaties and agreements.
These are the FSM Arrangement, Palau Arrangement, Nauru Agreement, Niue Treaty and US Treaty.
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Reports and Media Releases about Treaties & Agreements
Outcomes from PNA Presidential Summit
KOROR, PALAU, 25 FEBRUARY 2010: The first Presidential Summit of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) which includes leaders from Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, today released a declaration on future direction of their tuna fisheries.
The Presidents met at the Ngarachamayong Cultural Centre to discuss the development of the PNA, which aims to develop innovative ways to maximize economic gains from sustainable management of the members’ tuna fisheries.
The PNA Presidents agreed:
PNA PRESIDENTS MEET TO DECIDE WAY FORWARD FOR TUNA
KOROR, PALAU, 25 FEBRUARY 2010: The first Presidential Summit of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) which includes leaders from Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu, opens today.
The Presidents will meet at the Ngarachamayong Cultural Centre to discuss the development of the PNA, which aims to develop innovative ways to maximize economic gains from sustainable management of the members’ tuna fisheries.
The PNA, has been dubbed ‘OPEC for tuna’ because it aims to control access to tuna in its waters and so increase economic benefits for Pacific Islanders.
New book available on legal and policy trends in fisheries
Navigating Pacific Fisheries analyses the legal and policy context for the conservation, management and exploitation of tuna fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific region. Each chapter analyses and explores a key legal or policy issue of the tuna fisheries with a particular focus on Pacific island interests. The book explores these matters in two parts: Part One focuses on the impacts of global legal and policy trends on the conservation and management of the Western and Central Pacific tuna fisheries; Part Two focuses on the impacts of regional legal and policy trends on the conservation and management of the Western and Central Pacific tuna fisheries.
The book is published under the Ocean Publications series, a regular publication of ANCORS and was funded by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency.
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Course Nominations and Scholarships now open
The International Ocean Institute-Pacific Islands and the Division of Marine Studies of the University of the South Pacific invite nominations for people to participate in the next Train Sea Coast (TSC) course. The course on Responsible Fisheries in the Pacific Islands Region: implementation of Post-UNCED International Instruments will be convened at the Division of Marine Studies facilities from Monday 12 - Friday 23 July, 2010.
The Course was designed through the collaboration of the:
· United Nations Division of Ocean Affairs and Law of the Sea UN/DOALOS,
· Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA),
· Secretariat for the Pacific Community (SPC),
· University of the South Pacific (USP),
· Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and
· Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP).
Regional Tuna Management and Development Strategy available online
The Regional Tuna Management and Development Strategy (RTMADS) is now available online.
Adopted by the fifth meeting of Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) Ministers in May 2009 in Alofi, Niue, the Strategy was also noted at the Pacific Island Forum Leaders annual meeting in Cairns, Australia in July 2009. The Strategy is complimentary to, and underpins the strategic and annual operational planning framework that is already in place for the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).
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