Media-Releases

Intel and analysis continues as Tui Moana surveillance sweep ends

FFA HQ, Honiara, SOLOMON ISLANDS – There were no apprehensions and no blue boats, but the annual fisheries surveillance sweep of the Polynesia sub-region still served up a round of interesting highlights for 2017. Coordinated by the FFA’s Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre, Operation Tui Moana ended its ten-day run on Friday 26th May.

FFA, SPC Pacific workshop sharpens focus on Vietnamese Blue Boats

Friday 5th May, FFA HQ, Honiara Solomon Islands -- Monitoring, Control and Surveillance for Pacific tuna fisheries provides a useful existing framework to help Pacific countries to address the newest threat for Pacific reef systems, Vietnamese Blue Boats.

SPEECHES: FISH BLONG YUMI, FIUJA BLONG YUMI- FORUM FISHERIES CHAIR REFLECTS ON IMPORTANCE OF TUNA TO VANUATU, PACIFIC

FISH BLONG YUMI, FIUJA BLONG YUMI- FORUM FISHERIES CHAIR REFLECTS ON IMPORTANCE OF TUNA TO VANUATU, PACIFIC

(Keynote address led by the Chair of the Forum Fisheries Committee, Hon. Minister Matai Seremaiah Nawalu of Vanuatu,on the first UN World Tuna Day May, 2017)

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 10: Issue 2 March - April 2017

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 10: Issue 2March - April 2017

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

CONTENTS

Preferential & Fisheries Trade

EU-ASEAN Free Trade Agreement negotiations on track to resume

WTO Arbitrator rules in favour of Mexico in long-standing tuna-dolphin dispute

Fisheries Regulation

US marine mammal rule aims to reduce by-catch associated with imported seafood

WORLD TUNA DAY 2017: FFA STATEMENT BY DG JAMES MOVICK

UN WORLD TUNA DAY

STATEMENT BY FFA DIRECTOR-GENERAL JAMES MOVICK

May 2, 2017

‘Our fish, our future: Celebrating the fish that feeds the world

FFA HQ, SOLOMON ISLANDS– Today, May 2, is World Tuna Day in the fullest sense of the term, as the entire Pacific region and the whole world joins celebrations of the region’s iconic fish for the first time.

Pacific nations keep focus on IUU fishing: Monitoring, Control, Surveillance sessions begin

3 April 2017 FFA HQ SOLOMON ISLANDS – A who’s who of Pacific Fisheries is continuing to pour into Honiara this week for the annual series of Monitoring, Control and Surveillance sessions tackling Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing in the Pacific tuna fishery.

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 10: Issue 1 January-February 2017

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 10: Issue 1January-February 2017

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

CONTENTS

Preferential Trade

Philippines risk GSP+ status if death-penalty is reintroduced

Fisheries Subsidies

WTO fisheries subsidies negotiations gather momentum ahead of the 11th Ministerial Conference

Subsidies reported to continue fuelling profitability for China’s largest tuna fishing companies

Rai Balang surveillance sweep nabs IUU fishers : Blue boats spotted in PNG EEZ

17 Mach, 2017, FFA HQ SOLOMON ISLANDS – Fishing without a working Vessel Monitoring System and illegal shark fishing are amongst the license breaches picked up in the just-ended Operation Rai Balang surveillance sweep for 2017. LINK TO RAI BALANG PHOTOGALLERY 2017

Challenges, opportunities in regional fisheries top informal Ministerial agenda

9 Mar, 2017 FFA HQ Honiara SOLOMON ISLANDS – Pacific Ministers of Fisheries are in Honiara this week discussing opportunities and challenges for strategic fisheries cooperation.

FFA’s ‘MoanaVoices’ spreads the word on Fisheries careers for Pacific women

9 Mar, 2017 FFA HQ Honiara SOLOMON ISLANDS – Profiles of eight Pacific women in regional, industry and national fisheries administrations are featured in a new FFA publication aimed at encouraging more women to consider the diverse range of jobs in Offshore Fisheries. (Link to MOANAVOICES magazine here)

Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA)

Strengthening national capacity and regional solidarity for sustainable tuna fisheries