A full-scale emergency exercise took place Tuesday in Majuro challenging first responders to deal with a mock lagoon airplane crash scenario. The exercise brought together RMI Ports Authority, Marshall Islands Police Department, Majuro Atoll Local Government, Sea Patrol, Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, Marshall Islands Red Cross Society, Ministry of Health and Human Services, Environmental […]
Drug runners are taking a page out of the purse seine industry’s playbook. For decades, commercial fishing boats have used fish aggregation devices (FADs) to increase their fish catches. The Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority has installed dozens of FADs around the nation to assist local fishermen with improving their catches. But technological advances in […]
The most tuna transshipments since January 2024 happened last month in Majuro, with 28 purse seiners moving their tuna catches through Port Majuro. But the even better news is that the first week of June may have set a record with 24 transshipments, nearly as many as the monthly totals for April and May this […]
Over the weekend at Bokanbotin Island, a new marine science education program offered students a rare opportunity to engage directly with ocean science in a hands-on, field-based setting. In a country completely surrounded by the largest ocean in the world, the program highlighted both the natural advantage of place and the existing gap in formal […]
Despite Ailuk Atoll being an inhabited location, its reef system is in immaculate condition, according to the National Geographic Pristine Seas visit there earlier this month, the first stop on a three-month survey of numerous northern islands, both inhabited and unpopulated. “Ailuk is not an untouched atoll,” said Marshall Islands expedition science lead, Juan Mayorga. […]
GIFF JOHNSON Kramer Dock took front and center for a tour by the visiting Taiwan business delegation last week. The tour of fishery operations at the dock following briefings by the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority and Pacific International Inc. about the readiness of the fisheries sector for partnerships with interested investors. “At MIMRA, we […]
GIFF JOIHNSON Two new Japan International Cooperation Agency volunteers who arrived earlier this month in Majuro bring to 17 the total number of Japanese volunteers working on Majuro and Ebeye. Sachiko Kutsuma, a Japanese language teacher, and Yasuhiro Fukuda, a food processing and manufacturing specialist, are mid-way through their orientation program before heading to their […]
GIFF JOHNSON Every December, fisheries officials from the Marshall Islands and Forum Fisheries Agency countries troop off to the annual Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission — often for battles with some distant water fishing nations over policies that impact tuna fishing on the high seas in the region. But this year, said MIMRA Director […]
The Ocean Exploration Trust (OET)’s exploration vessel Nautilus started its exploration of deep-sea habitats throughout the Marshall Islands in collaboration with the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority and other partners earlier this month. Funded by NOAA Ocean Exploration via the Ocean Exploration Cooperative Institute, this expedition will map and explore poorly known deep-sea habitats to […]
The Marshall Islands Conservation Society (MICS) has launched a coral heat-tolerance testing initiative and established two coral nurseries as part of the efforts to support reef restoration in the Marshall Islands. This initiative is part of a regional project led by The Nature Conservancy (TNC) with support from the Coral Research and Development Accelerator Platform […]
