Fisheries Story: a 40 days tuna research expedition begins today

The Pacific’s annual tuna tagging research voyage monitoring Pacific tuna stock health departs today from Honolulu, for operations in and around the Kiribati Exclusive Economic Zone. The cruise is composed of 4 scientists including Giulia Anderson, SPC’s…

Fisheries Story: Dynamics of a South Tarawa Atoll fisher group, Kiribati

Photo credit: SPC/Jeff Kinch While South Tarawa (Kiribati) is facing multiple threats at the same time, it is important for local fishers to understand the main fish species targeted, including the how, when and why as this can help fishers to ensure…

Fisheries Story: The Pacific Nutrient Database calculates the nutritional value of food

Did you ever wonder about the nutritional value of the seafood you eat? The Pacific Nutrient Database (PNDB) enables you to know this. The database is a step towards improving the evidence base to end the triple burden of malnutrition, achieving food…

Fisheries Story: Seven concrete strategies to eliminate plastic waste from fishing vessels in the Pacific

This study, concerning plastic waste from fishing vessels in the Pacific, provides some interesting strategies to eliminate that waste. Read the full story here:

Fisheries Story: The SPC Fisheries and Ecosystem Monitoring work

Let’s discover how the Pacific community uses cutting edge science to monitor the largest tuna fisheries worldwide (Western and central Pacific Ocean) and the ecosystem that supports these stocks.

Fisheries Story: Charles Cuewapuru, a New Caledonian observer, just received training on advanced biological sampling from SPC

Charles Cuewapuru is an experienced New Caledonian observer, who has been working at sea on longliners since 2002. SPC’s FAME Division recently trained him in advanced biological sampling techniques. Since then, Charles has been collecting high quality…

Fisheries Story: Adaptability is key to sustaining capacity development and technical support for Pacific Island member countries during the COVID-19 crisis

  As COVID-19 infections spread across the globe in early 2020 and governments shut down international travel, the Pacific Community’ Coastal Fisheries Programme (CFP) was forced to stop business-as-usual and confront how to deliver its work programmes…

Fisheries story: Fishing techniques - Trolling

This fishing technique is trolling. It is the most widespread fishing method to target nearshore pelagic fish in most of the Pacific islands. It is practiced from canoes, outboard and inboard powered boats by subsistence, artisanal, commercial,…

Fisheries story: First leadership training for regional aquaculture enterprises

The Pacific Community (SPC), through the Sustainable Pacific Aquaculture Development Project (PacAqua), worked with Megan Streeter, lead trainer, to deliver a first-of-its-kind training on leadership targeted at regional aquaculture enterprises. The…

Fisheries Story: Gathering data to analyse how effective the anchored FADs are for fishers’ livelihoods

This week, these Coastal Fisheries Data Collectors from Kadavu, Fij, boarded a ferry to meet SPC's colleagues in Suva, to receive new tablets. They will use them to continue collecting data related to their artisanal fisheries. The landing data they…
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