Latest Fishing News June 11-June 18, 2019

Annual Forum Fisheries Ministerial Meeting Kicks off in Micronesia The 16th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial meeting begins tomorrow in Pohnpei, the capital of the Federated States of Micronesia, and will tackle a broad range of issues aimed at protecting and securing the long term interests of Pacific Island countries over the region’s valuable tuna resources. “The Western and Central Pacific is home to the biggest tuna fishery in the world and 60 percent of the catch is taken from the waters of FFA member countries – amounting to around 30 percent of global tuna catches. So this is a critical meeting for the region. Ministers recognise that we must ensure our major offshore resource – tuna – is not only managed sustainably, but that we increase the social and economic benefits that it provides for our Pacific people,” said Dr. Manu Tupou-Roosen, Director General of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency. Continue reading here (Source: Pacific Islands Tuna Industry Association).

Big Plans for Majuro - The Pacific's Busiest Transhipment Port Majuro is the Pacific's busiest transhipment port and the authority in charge of managing it, and the country has big plans for both. Transhipment is where freight is transferred from one mode of transport to another. In the case of the Majuro, it's where tuna is moved from trawlers to freighters. The Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority (MIMRA) is updating the country's shipping and tuna management strategies. Continue reading here ( Source: Radio New Zealand).

US National Marine Fisheries Service: Deed of Cession Does Not Protect Fishing Rights The US National Marine Fisheries Service has disputed ASG’s use of “Deeds” — referring to the 1900 Deed of Cession for Tutuila and Aunu’u; and the 1904 Deed of Cession for the Manu’a Islands — in their briefs filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the ongoing legal battle over the reduction of the Large Vessel Prohibited Area (LVPA) in territorial waters. “ASG refers to the documents as ‘Deeds’, but the documents themselves do not include that word. Rather, the documents identify themselves as ‘cessions’,” according to a footnote in NMFS’ briefs filed by federal attorneys last Friday. Continue reading here ( Source: Samoa News).

IPNLF Welcomes its First Japanese Member The Kochi Sustainable Skipjack Association (KSSA) has become the latest Member of the  International Pole & Line Foundation  (IPNLF), the non-profit association that is committed to developing and supporting responsible one-by-one tuna fisheries and supply chains. Founded two years ago by a passionate group of business leaders, politicians and academics, KSSA represents the interests of Kochi’s pole-and-line skipjack tuna fishery and the people that it has supported for hundreds of years. A critical element of this effort is about working with fisheries managers to make sure the skipjack population remains healthy and sufficiently abundant to protect this vibrant culture. ( Source: Fish Information Services).

Scientist Warns Ocean Warming Depleting PNG's Tuna Resource Global warming and climate change is threatening Papua New Guinea (PNG)’s agriculture production and marine resources. This was revealed at the NARI Policy Forum 2019 in Lae on May 29 and 30. The National’s senior writer Malum Nalu was there to collate the details. Despite the politics in Port Moresby on May 29 and 30 that captured the attention of people nationwide, it was business as usual at the National Agriculture Research Institute (NARI)’s 2019 Agriculture Innovations Show in Bubia outside Lae. Hundreds of people, many of them students, converged to see NARI’s latest innovations, including rice grown by major sponsor Trukai Industries in the great Markham Valley rice bowl of Morobe. Continue reading here ( Source: The National).

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