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IWD2018: MILESTONE MOMENT FOR FFA- DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE POLICY (SPEECH)

SPEECH BY FFA DIRECTOR GENERAL JAMES MOVICK 
 
FFA DOMESTIC AND FAMILY VIOLENCE POLICY LAUNCH @ FFA HQ in HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS.
MARCH 8 INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 2018
 
Salutations.
 
Today is International Women’s Day. 
 
I wish first to recognise and acknowledge the exceptional and sustained contribution that our female workforce in the Forum Fisheries Agency make to the work of the Agency. 

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 10: Issue 6 November-December 2017

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS  Volume 10: Issue 6November-December 2017

By Elizabeth Havice, Liam Campling and Mike McCoy[1]

 

CONTENTS

Special Feature

New FFA report on the tuna longline industry in the WCPO

Preferential & Fisheries Trade

WTO Members fail to agree to minimal, low ambition rules on fisheries subsidies

Fisheries Regulation

US announces that it will begin SIMP with an ‘informed compliance’ approach

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 10: Issue 5 September-October 2017

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS

Volume 10: Issue 5September-October 2017  By Liam Campling, Elizabeth Havice, Mike McCoy[1]

 

CONTENTS

Preferential & Fisheries Trade

Uncertain future for Pacific-EU relations post-Cotonou Agreement

WTO compliance panels side with US on tuna-dolphin dispute

Fisheries Regulation

Vietnam receives EU-IUU fishing ‘yellow card’; Thailand and Taiwan yet to be lifted

New Zealand’s Matt Hooper confirmed as next Forum Fisheries Deputy

 WCPFC14,Manila, PHILLIPPINES— As FFA’s Deputy Director General Wez Norris prepares to wrap up his final Tuna Commission meeting with the Forum Fisheries Agency tomorrow, the announcement of his successor has been made. 
 
Director General James Movick confirmed the appointment of Mr Matthew Hooper of New Zealand to the position of Deputy Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), commencing during the first half of 2018. 
 

WCPFC14: Fiji to Tuna Commission- 'Hard decisions need to be made now' (Statement).

 Fiji Statement led by Minister for Fisheries Hon. Semi Koroilavesau during the opening formalities of the WCPFC14 at the PICC in Manila, Phillippines on Dec 3, 2017.
 (Salutations)
... Madam Chair, Fiji’s statement will focus on the important issues that are at hand. This reflects issues that Fiji sees important in terms of our shared national and regional 

The Tuna Longline Industry in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean and its Market Dynamics

The report provides industry and market intelligence regarding the current status of the tuna longline industry in terms of distant water fleets (DWF) and other companies involved in the global chains that these fleets supply. The study examines the DWFs of China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The primay focus is on industry dynamics, that is, key companies and organisations, industry organisation and corporate strategies; and the secondary focus is on markets and marketing strategies.

Taiwan vessel nabbed in Pacific fisheries surveillance operation Kurukuru

Friday 27 October, 2017: FFA HQ, Honiara, SOLOMON ISLANDS—Maritime police and fisheries authorities in the Federated States of Micronesia have apprehended and seized a Taiwan purse seining vessel suspected of IUU fishing. The vessel was boarded and inspected by one of FSM’s three Patrol boats during Operation Kurukuru 2017, a ten-day Pacific-wide fisheries surveillance operation which ended on Friday, 13 October.
 

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