The PNG National Fisheries Authority (NFA) Managing Director and Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Chairman Mr. Sylvester Pokajam and Delegates including the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) undertook an Investment Mission in Fisheries to China at the invitation of the Shanghai Fisheries General Corporation Group (SFGC) last week.

HONIARA, SOLOMON ISLANDS, MONDAY 20 JUNE 2011: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Director Dr Transform Aqorau, congratulated Solomon Islands Cabinet on their decision, announced Friday to close the tuna fishery to foreign fishing vessels.

Reaching their maximum limit of fishing days, Solomon Islands will cease to allow foreign fishing vessels to fish for tuna from this time onward. Efforts are being made for Solomon Islands to purchase 1000 fishing days from a country that has underused their current allocation of fishing days.

The draft report on the MSC certification assessment of the above fishery is now available for comment by stakeholders on www.msc.org. See http://www.msc.org/track-a-fishery/in-assessment/pacific/pna-western-an…

FUNAFUTI, TUVALU, 11 APRIL 2011: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) Ministers concluded today as leaders made key decisions to advance their sustainable management and development of its tuna.

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) includes Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Collectively, the PNA controls 25-30% of the world’s supply of tuna and cooperate to sustainably manage and develop this key resource. 

FUNAFUTI, TUVALU, 4 APRIL 2011: The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) annual meeting opened today in Tuvalu to discuss key issues around sustainable management and development of its tuna.

The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) includes Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu. Collectively, the PNA controls 25-30% of the world’s supply of tuna and cooperate to sustainably manage and develop this key resource.

EUROPE, PACIFIC ISLANDS, 31 JANUARY 2011: As consumer pressure for sustainable tuna grows, the Parties of Nauru Agreement (PNA) are working with scientists, governments, non-government organisations and industry to provide consumers with a sustainable choice for purse-seine caught tuna. The PNA are global leaders in conservation and fisheries management responsible for a marine area of 14.3 million square kilometers – an area 40% larger than the region of Europe.

Islands Business awarded the honour of "Organisation of the Year 2010" to the PNA in an unprecedented acknowledgement by the magazine of the contribution of an organisation to Pacific Islands development.

A recent article written by staff from the Pew Environment Group on the PNA's proposal to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission to ban setting around whale sharks was commended by National Geographic's News Editor David Braun.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
A Whale Shark of an Opportunity Lost in Hawaii
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2010/12/whale-shark-of-an-opportunity-lost.html

The Samoa Observer provided details of the keynote address of Governor of American Samoa Togiola Tulafono. The Governor spoke positively about the development of the PNA which he says also helps the development of American Samoa. 

SAMOA NEWS
Governor to Pacific Island Nations: we must work together on fishing rights
http://www.samoanews.com/viewstory.php?storyid=21517&edition=1291888800

Nature magazine, a leading weekly international scientific journal founded in 1869, featured an article on the PNA and conservation in its December edition.

NATURE MAGAZINE
Islands champion tuna ban
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101208/full/468739a.html