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MEDIA RELEASE: FFA WINS GLOBAL STOP IUU FISHING PRIZE

BANGKOK 22 February 2019 – The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) was awarded the top prize in the 2019 Stop Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing competition yesterday.

“This achievement recognises FFA’s work in Monitoring, Control and Surveillance initiatives to deter IUU fishing in the Pacific. Well done to the team at FFA, past and present, and all of our FFA member countries. And the award is particularly timely given FFA has just kicked off our 40th anniversary celebrations,” said FFA Director General, Dr Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen

FFA TRADE AND INDUSTRY NEWS Volume 11: Issue 6 November-December 2018

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

FFA Regional Aerial Surveillance aircraft in Solomon Is

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

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 

PRESS RELEASE: First female Chief of Staff leads successful joint fisheries operation (OPKK 18) to combat illegal fishing in the region

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.

 

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