Tuna Fishery Report Card 2025

Introduction

Tuna Fishery Report Card 2025

In 2015 Forum Leaders adopted the Regional Roadmap for Sustainable Pacific Fisheries setting out shared goals

and strategies for the management of the region’s tuna fisheries. The shared goals relate to sustainability, value,

employment and food security with the goalsto be achieved over the 10-year period to 2024. Subsequently, Forum

Leaders established the Taskforce on Increasing Economic Returns from Fisheries to deliver real results within 5

years. The Taskforce developed four programme components: reform of the management of the longline fishery;

increasing the value of employment and ensuring effective labour standards are in place; facilitating investment

and trade; and value chain participation and established a number of specific targets to be achieved over a 5-year

period.

This Tuna Fishery Report Card reports on the four Roadmap goals and provides commentary on trends against the

sustainability, employment and food security targets specified for tuna fisheries in the Roadmap1 and the targets

set by the Taskforce. While some general commentary is provided, it is important to note that this Report Card is

not intended to be a detailed report on the implementation of the strategies outlined in the Roadmap or the

programmes specified in the Taskforce Report.

Additionally, it is important to note this Report Card reports on trends across FFA Members and fisheries as a whole.

This masks the substantial differences between FFA Members at national level given their different resource

endowments, different management regimes within their waters and different areas of comparative advantage for

development of their fisheries resources.

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