Pacific Agencies Step Up Fight Against Illegal Fishing
Illegal, unreported and unregulated, or IUU, fishing in the Pacific is being targeted like never before following calls by Pacific leaders for action.
HMNZS Wellington (L) gathering evidence of illegal fishing. Photo: NZDF
Earlier this year, the Cook Islands prime minister Henry Puna, who chairs the Ministerial Forum Fisheries Committee, said a key priority for the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) was a strengthened collective approach to combating the continued threat of IUU fiishing.
In October, the Marshall Islands president Hilda Heine called on Pacific nations and those fishing in the Pacific to strive to abolish IUU fishing within five years.
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(Source: Herdon Gazette).
