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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
 The Secretariat of the Pacific Community needs your eye and talent to create awareness and help ensure the Pacific region can continue benefiting from the wealth of its fisheries.
Changes in the climate can be expected to affect our lives as they alter life underwater. Your best pictures can help illustrate a book that compiles the work of 70 scientists over the last two years. The winner receives USD 1,000! Click here for details.
Many of us make a living from the fish our waters bountifully provide, while visitors come from around the world to admire the splendour of our tropical seabed. Fish is the cornerstone of food security in the Pacific, and fisheries and aquaculture represent a significant share of our gross domestic product (GDP).
Yet worldwide, emissions of carbon dioxide are affecting the climate, and driving changes to the oceans. For example, increases in water temperature are projected to alter currents, strengthen storms, degrade the coral reefs fish depend on, and increase risks of fish and shellfish diseases. Some fish species are likely to move to other waters, some may adapt; others will probably disappear.
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Thursday, 18 March 2010 |
 Friday 19th March 2010, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji Islands - Inadequate information on pests of tree species has been one of the major hindrances on safe movement and sharing of the genetic materials amongst Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTs).
This was revealed during a regional workshop being held in Nadi (Fiji), on improving the governance and building capacity for the safe movement of tree germplasm between PICTs.
Roy Masamdu, Biosecurity and Trade Facilitation Officer with the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) Land Resources Division believes that more collaboration is needed between the various stakeholders to share information pertaining to the import risk analysis of genetic material, especially for tree species.
‘Exporting countries should provide adequate information on pests associated with the genetic material being transferred.
‘Pacific Island countries should also assist each other to conduct the risk analysis to identify the quarantine pest and application of import conditions that are effective, safe and appropriate.’ Masamdu said.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 18 March 2010 )
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
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 Wednesday 17th March 2010, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji Islands - Biodiversity is a precondition for sustained food security and livelihoods of people.
Indeed, according to the Director of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) Land Resource Division Mr Aleki Sisifa, it is essential for the very existence of humankind.
Sisifa made these comments during the official opening of the regional workshop on improving the governance and building capacities for the safe movement of tree germplasm between Pacific Island countries and territories (PICTS) in Nadi, Fiji.
‘The loss of agricultural and forestry biodiversity contributes to a deterioration of human health and nutrition, the spread of unsustainable agricultural and forestry practices and an inexorable narrowing of future options.
‘No country in the world is self-sufficient in genetic resources – it is not possible for a country to sustain its crops, livestock and forests solely on the genetic resources found within its borders,’ Mr Sisifa said.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 March 2010 )
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Monday, 15 March 2010 |
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 Tuesday 16th March 2010, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji Islands - Through its Land Resources Division, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) will continue to support the initiatives of farmers, entrepreneurs and the governments of Pacific Island countries and territories to add value to agriculture and forestry products.
These comments were made by the Director of SPC’s Land Resource Division Mr Aleki Sisifa while delivering his keynote address at the official opening of Kaiming Agro Processing Limited’s factory in Navua, Fiji Islands.
‘It is a pleasure to be part of this great initiative whereby we were able to work together with a private entrepreneur and with the Fiji Government to achieve this milestone in terms of improved processing and marketing of root crops and ginger.’
In addition to congratulating Mr Calvin Qiu, the general manager of Kaiming Agro Processing Limited , Mr Sisifa also said that this development had resulted from the support of the Fiji Government and the timely and targeted assistance of SPC through its European Union-funded FACT (Facilitating Agricultural Commodity Trade) pilot project.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 15 March 2010 )
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 Friday 12 March 2010, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) – Twenty scientists gathered recently at an International Tuna Tagging Workshop held at the Secretariat of the Pacific Community’s (SPC) headquarters in New Caledonia.
The world’s largest ever tuna tagging project has released over 250,000 tagged tuna into the equatorial Western and Central Pacific Ocean and 35,000 tags have already been recovered. The data being collected will help in sustaining and protecting the world’s largest resource of tuna.
The joint SPC/PNG National Fisheries Pacific Tuna Tagging Programme started in August 2006 in Papua New Guinean waters, where 15% of the world’s tuna is caught. In 2007, funding from the New Zealand government (NZD 5 million) and European Union (EUR 1.56 million) enabled the operational area of the project to be extended to cover the whole of the equatorial Western and Central Pacific Ocean. The last tagging cruise ended in October 2009. For around 90 days at a time, a 30-strong team of experienced Solomon Islands fishermen and SPC biologists roamed the seas on a pole-and-line fishing vessel, gently easing the fish on board to measure, tag and return them to sea within 15 seconds (further details on www.spc.int/oceanfish ).
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 14 March 2010 )
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