Pacific Island nations to develop advanced warning system for Tuna migration under new NZ$25 million SPC led climate programme.

24 February 2023 A Pacific Community (SPC) led NZ$25 million regional partnership aimed at enabling Pacific nations to adapt their tuna fisheries to the impacts of climate change was announced today by the New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister and…

Green News: Climate change-induced sea-level rise direct threat Pacific nations

Speakers warned the international community that tensions are deepening as coastlines vanish, territories are lost, resources become scarce, and masses are displaced, as the Security Council held its first ever open debate on 15 of February on the impact…

UN Security Council Ministerial High Level Open Debate, Threats to International Peace and Security: Sea-Level Rise – Implications for International Peace & Security, Brief by Coral Pasisi, SPC's Director of Climate Change & President of Tofia Niue

United Nations Security Council Ministerial High level Open Debate Threats to International Peace and Security: Sea-Level Rise – Implications for International Peace and Security

Fisheries science: DNA cross-contamination risk using different tissue sampling procedures

This content was orginally published on ICES website. In the latest Editor’s Choice, read about an experiment that was carried out on tuna to assess DNA cross-contamination risk on board fishing and research vessels.

International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023

On 11 February, the United Nations, partners worldwide, women and girls will mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The Day focuses on the reality that science and gender equality are both vital for the achievement of…

Ocean Science Fact: Tsunami

Did you know 80% of Tsunami occur around the “Ring of Fire”?

Fisheries Newsletter #169

Photo: Pohnpei - Federated States of Micronesia. ©James Wichman, SPC   Complete publication for download here

SPC partnerships with Women Entrepreneurs in Fisheries

Katarina Baleisuva is a full-time farmer and the owner of Kaybee Farm, in Fiji. Since 2011 she has been running a self-funded successful integrated farm which includes tilapia fish farming. Through these earnings, she has successfully educated her…

Promoting responsible fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific through information and awareness-raising tools: International Year of Artisanal Fisheries and Aquaculture 2022

Are Marine Protected Areas effective for tuna conservation?

The first-ever quantitative evaluation of the contribution of no-take Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to the conservation of tropical tunas in the western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) has been published in Frontiers in Marine Science.
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