KOROR, 22 February 2019 – FFA Director General, Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen has made her inaugural address to the 19th Micronesian Presidents’ Summit, with a commitment that the FFA will build mechanisms for closer cooperation between FFA Members.
HONIARA, 25 January 2019 -- The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency yesterday welcomed the highest rankin
FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS . Volume 11: Issue 6 . November-December 2018
By Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice and Mike McCoy [1]
CONTENTS
Fisheries Trade
WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations to intensify in 2019
US-China temporary truce offers reprieve from scheduled tariff increases
Fisheries Management
WCPFC15 strengthens management of South Pacific albacore, adopts a new Compliance Monitoring Scheme
The Solomon Islands Government has welcomed the FFA Regional Aerial Surveillance aircraft currently operating out of Henderson Airport and undertaking fisheries surveillance in the Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
At an event hosted at Henderson Airport this afternoon, the Australian High Commissioner, H. E. Mr. Roderick Brazier, Acting Permanent Secretary for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Mr. Ferral Lasi, and MFMR staff were able to join the FFA Director General, Dr. Manu Tupou-Roosen, in viewing the aircraft.
FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 11: Issue 5 September-October 2018
Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice and Mike McCoy [1]
CONTENTS
Fisheries Trade
Fishing overcapacity discussed at the World Trade Organisation
Flags of convenience and fisheries-related tax evasion increasingly in the spotlight
Fisheries Management
Update from WCPFC 14th Technical and Compliance Committee
HONIARA, 29 October 2018 --- It is not often a female Chief of Staff is chosen to lead a joint fisheries and maritime operation between FFA Member countries and QUAD partners (Australia, France, New Zealand and USA). But Senior Constable Sepola Tataa Niulakita from Tuvalu, the first female Chief of Staff, was chosen to lead Operation Kurukuru 2018 (OPKK18), an annual FFA-led operation to combat illegal fishing in the Pacific region.
HONIARA, 21 September 2018, -- A week after Seafood Expo Asia, seven Pacific small to medium sized fishing companies continue to reap the benefits of attending and meeting with potential buyers.
HONIARA, 19 September, 2018 -- At their annual summit in Nauru, Pacific Forum Leaders lent their support to a number of recommendations from Forum Fisheries Ministers who had met earlier in the year in July in the Cook Islands.