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US quits fish treaty

By Journal on January 22, 2016 FFA, fish treaty, James Movick, Transform Aquorau, US State Department, Wez Norris, William Gibbons-Fly News Archive

GIFF JOHNSON The US government officially announced it is pulling out of the US Pacific islands fisheries treaty, a move that will take effect in 12 months, according to the terms of the nearly 30-year old deal. The US State Department advised the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) this past weekend that it had officially communicated […]

Island fisheries reps disappointed

By Journal on December 11, 2015 Amanda Nickson, Eugene Pangelinan, Helen Greig, PNA, Rhea Morris-Christian, WCPFC, Wez Norris News Archive

Five days of exhaustive talks at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) yielded mixed results for Pacific island states. But the Parties to Nauru Agreement (PNA) said it was “deeply disappointed with the failure” of the WCPFC “to reach an amicable solution on bigeye tuna that would address its […]