The 2020 Pacific Tuna tagging success relies on Fishing industry and Technology sector collaboration
The Pacific Community (SPC) has just completed a critical expedition to monitor the health of the world's largest tuna fishery in the Western and Central Pacific. The success of the expedition was largely due to increased support provided by the fishing…
Safeguarding the world’s largest tuna fishery
Brailing of tuna onboard vessel Dolores, 2008. Credit: Siosifa Fukofuka (SPC)
Understanding the impact of modern fishing techniques on the tuna fishery is critical to ensure the sustainability of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO) tuna fishery…
Ground-breaking science at the 15th meeting of the WCPFC Scientific Committee
Representatives from countries across and beyond the Pacific met this August in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia for the 15th Regular Session of the Scientific Committee (SC) of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC). At this…
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An albacore tuna is injected with strontium chloride, and will be tagged with a white mark. (image: Ashley Williams)
Projection / débat BIOPELAGOS : découvrir la biodiversité du grand large
Le projet BIOPELAGOS vise à étudier la biodiversité marine du large, encore méconnue. Les travaux ont porté sur le réseau alimentaire, des premiers maillons (phytoplancton, zooplancton, micronecton) jusqu’aux grands prédateurs du large (thons et oiseaux…
Pacific Tuna Forum 2019
7th Regional Tuna industry and Trade Conference
Pacific Island Countries and Territories adapting to Climate Change in Tuna Fisheries
In the Pacific Islands region, tunas are important for coastal communities’ food security. The predicted massive change in their distribution, a consequence of climate change, will impact these communities. Selling skipjack tuna by the roadside, Tarawa,…
Mercury and tuna: a matter of size, species, and origin
A highly popular dish around the world, tuna meat unfortunately contains a toxin, methylmercury, focus of a joint transdisciplinary IRD-SPC study. For the first time, scientists were able to map mercury contained in tuna fish from the Western and Central…
What do tuna eat?
A young intern female scientist from New Caledonia, Pauline Machful, spent six month at the Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystem (FAME) Division and the Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability (CCES) Programme of the Pacific Community (SPC…