MANILA, PHILIPPINES, SUNDAY 2 DECEMBER 2012: As the Western and Central Pacific Commission (WCPFC) meeting starts today, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) said it was time for the big fishing nations to stop overfishing of bigeye tuna.

PACIFIC REGION 27 NOVEMBER 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) said countries must agree to protect whale sharks from fishing at next week’s Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting in Manila, Philippines.

Each year the WCPFC brings together the Pacific Island countries, Asian nations, US, EU and other foreign fishers to meet and decide rules for fishing of tuna throughout the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest tuna fishery, supplying 50% of the global tuna supply.

PACIFIC REGION, MONDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2012:  With just two weeks until fishing nations and Pacific Islands meet at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) said it will not bow to pressure to open the high seas to foreign fishing.

INVITATION TO TENDER – WEBSITE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT & SUPPORT

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) is seeking submissions from suitable IT companies to provide website design and support services for domain www.pnatuna.com

Please consult document attached below for details and apply by December 1st 2012. 

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, OCTOBER 2012: PNA observers and observer trainers have completed a Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) chain of custody training course to prepare them to monitor  the MSC chain of custody at sea.

In December 2011, PNA became the world’s largest certified sustainable tuna purse seine fishery when it was awarded certification by the MSC.

PORT MORESBY, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, OCTOBER 2012: The first formal social accountability standards training for the tuna processing industry was conducted in Port Moresby from 3-6 October 2012.

This training course and workshop, builds on previous support to industry in assessment of existing standards in each processing plant. The course covered diagnosis and implementation of the SAI SA8000 Standard for Social Accountability, ETI ethical trading initiative, ISO 26000 Guidelines on Corporate Social Responsibility, and SMETA, which is a tool for social accountability auditing.

PACIFIC REGION, WEDNESDAY 10 OCTOBER 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) announced Daniel Namosuaia of the Solomon Star newspaper as the winner of the Communicating Tuna Media Competition.

Robert Matau from Islands Business magazine was announced as runner up.

The winner will be provided with fully funded travel to Manila, Philippines in December 2012 to report on the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Tuna Commission to the Pacific region.

Below is a summary of reports produced by participants in the recent Pew/PNA "Communicating Tuna" workshop and other entries to the PNA competition to send journalists producing the best reports on tuna to this year's Tuna Commission.

Got more reports to add to this summary? Please email details to pnatuna@pnatuna.com

REPORTS FROM PARTICIPANTS IN THE PEW/PNA COMMUNICATING TUNA MEDIA WORKSHOP

BERNADETTE CARREON – FREELANCE/PALAU

Please see attached document for those organisations or individuals interested in inputting submissions to the process of the surveillance audit. 

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, MONDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) office invites all journalists working in the PNA countries to submit their best stories about tuna to be in the running to win a chance to report from this year’s Tuna Commission meeting in December.