The second week of December will see the annual meeting of the Tuna Commission in Hawaii and the Parties to the Nauru Agreement look to be going to the event well prepared.
The PNA countries control a large portion of the tuna fisheries in the Pacific and it doesn't plan to cede this.
The Commission, more formally called the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, represents both the Pacific Island nations and the distant water nations.
Eight of the island nations make up the PNA, and its commercial manager, Maurice Brownjohn, told Don Wiseman that the body is strongly opposed to other distant water nations gaining increased control over the fisheries.
Tuna on the deck of a Pacific fishing vessel. Photo: RNZI/Giff Johnson
