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Tuesday 4 June 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji -
Why bother with apples, bears and elephants if Fiji has beautiful native turtles, parrots and angelfish?
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Tuesday 4 June 2013, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), Suva, Fiji -
 Local pilots play an important role in the safe passage of container ships and other large vessels into and out of Pacific ports. Foreign shipmasters rely on pilots for their local knowledge of depths, currents, locations of wrecks, reefs, navigation aids, and other potential obstacles. And now, updated oceanographic studies of Suva Harbour’s sea floor and currents are being used to localise and improve a computer-simulated training for ships’ pilots in the Pacific region.
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Participants from Fiji, Kiribati, Palau, Samoa and Vanuatu are undergoing a week-long training in Nadi on facilitation of organic participatory guarantee systems (PGS).
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community is working through the European Union-funded Increasing Agricultural Commodity Trade (IACT) Project to support aquaculture farmer networks in the region. The latest one is the Sirinumu cluster in Papua New Guinea (PNG).
