Fisheries ministers from around the Pacific have endorsed a new strategy for a safer more robust regional tuna fishery.
Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of the climate crisis, stopping modern slavery on fishing vessels and improving management of the longline fishery were some of the major talking points, at the Forum Fisheries Agency meeting, in Pohnpei last week.
It concluded with the ministers signing off on a new Strategic Action Plan for region.
The agency's director general Manumatavai Tupou-Roosen says it paves the way for a lot of important work in the region and preparing for the negative impacts of the climate crisis is at the forefront of it all.
An illegal transshipment is seen taking place on board the ship 'Heng Xing 1' in an area of international waters near the exclusive economic zone of Indonesia. Photo: Shannon Service / Greenpeace
