ALOTAU, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 2 MAY 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) announced the winners of the World Tuna Day Art and Talent Quest today - a major new opportunity to showcase Pacific talent and passion for tuna.

ALOTAU, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 2 MAY 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) celebrated World Tuna Day and the 30^th Anniversary of the PNA with cultural celebrations and speeches by Ministers in picturesque Alotau, Milne Bay Province, Papua New Guinea today.

PNA Ministers in 2011 declared May 2 to be World Tuna Day an opportunity to celebrate the wonders of tuna and the relationship between people and tuna through fishing, conservation and other endeavours such as science and art.

ALOTAU, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 1 MAY 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Ministerial Meeting opened with a keynote speech from China offering close cooperation with the PNA for three key areas – market access, domestic development and fisheries science.

MEDIA RELEASE FROM TOKELAU 1 MAY 2012: The Ulu of Tokelau, Faipule Kerisiano Kalolo, today signed an agreement on behalf of the people of Tokelau and the eight Pacific Island Countries that make up the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) to join the highly successful purse seine vessel day scheme (VDS).

PACIFIC ISLANDS, 12 APRIL 2012: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) expressed its concern about ongoing incorrect "alerts to consumers", from Earth Island Institute regarding Pacifical, a commercial initiative of PNA nations to trade sustainably harvested tuna from PNA waters.

Want your art, poetry, dance, drama music, short film or writing to be showcased to the world? Got a story to tell about the wonders of tuna and tuna fishing? Are you a national of Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands or Tuvalu? If your answers are YES, then enter the WORLD TUNA DAY ART & TALENT QUEST!

SATURDAY 31 MARCH, GUAM: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) said the latest meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) did not go far enough towards conservation and management of tuna.

The meeting closed late Friday without any progress on PNA’s proposals to cut overfishing of bigeye tuna, a popular sashimi fish, to protect whale sharks, or to have a four month ban on Fish Aggregating Devices (FADS, which result in bycatches of young tuna and other species).

GUAM, MONDAY 26 MARCH: 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 shape up and improve their record on conservation and management of tuna.

PACIFIC ISLANDS, MONDAY 19 MARCH 2012:  The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) called for foreign fishing nations to stop their overfishing of bigeye tuna by taking action at the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) meeting next week.

MAJURO, MARSHALL ISLANDS, MONDAY 11 MARCH 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.