The Pacific paves the way for strong collaboration in tuna fishing scientific research
Photo: SPC Observer database
Innovative science to quantify the drifting fish aggregating devices in the world’s largest tuna fishery.
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.
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Empowering seaweed farmers to develop new products in Solomon Islands
“Cottonii” seaweed is the traditional name of farmed seaweed in the Solomon Islands, a country made of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands located in the Pacific region. With a population of over seven hundred thousand, it has a GDP per capita…
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.
Second Regional Fisheries Ministers Meeting (virtual)
The Regional Fisheries Ministers Meeting is a joint event launched in 2020, following the 2018 decision by Forum leaders to have more comprehensive updates on Fisheries work from the Pacific regional organisations-- the Pacific Islands Forum…
World Oceans Day: Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science (PCCOS) Launch of Decade Action
Fisheries Story: A large-scale tuna sampling operation organised by SPC fisheries scientists
On Wednesday 2nd June 2021; a large-scale tuna sampling operation mobilised eight SPC fisheries science staff for an intense day cutting through 70 skipjack and yellowfin tuna from Papua New Guinea (PNG).
In early April 2021, SPC staff gave detailed…