Government of Solomon Islands

Vessel Monitoring and Surveillance (VMS)

About us

VMS is a programme of the Compliance Section. Our activities include:

Transshipment Monitoring
Boarding & Inspection
Investigation
Catch certificates
Landing
Export inspection
Training

Resources

This page is under development. We will describe here our participation in the programmes of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) such as managing the vessel day scheme.

PNA website
iFIMS
WCPFC

Investigations

Details of current investigations will be posted here.

Recent Vessel Monitoring Compliance News

Young Samuel saves turtle from slaughter
May 28, 2020, 8:45 p.m.

Honiara, 28 May 2020: Eleven years old Samuel Jason Voda Marsh, a fifth grader at Honiara International School (Woodford) yesterday joined officer from the Ministries of Environment and Fisheries to tag and release back into the wild, a juvenile Green Marine Turtle (Species name - Chelonia mydas).

SIG Looks to Pilot an Integrated Digital Catch Documentation & Traceability Scheme for Noro Fishing Operations
March 17, 2020, 10:25 a.m.

Representatives from the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR), the SIG ICT Services, Customs, Health, Soltuna, National Fisheries Development (NFD) and iTUNA Intel conducted a 3-day workshop at Munda from 11-13 March to advance proposals to establish a wholly integrated digital catch documentation and traceability scheme for the Noro Fishing Port which will be known as ePort

MFMR strengthens monitoring, control and surveillance regime on LL vessels
March 12, 2020, 6:31 p.m.

Solomon Islands Government (SIG) through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) is taking the lead at the PNA (Parties to the Nauru Agreement) level in its fight against Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated (IUU), especially monitoring on Long Line (LL) and Purse Seine (PS) fishing vessels.

Solomons expecting hike in tuna revenue
Feb. 10, 2020, 7:18 p.m.

Revenue collected through licenses is set to hit an all time high this fishing season as more fishing days are being sold to the major fishing nations.

SPC's Dr Andrew Hunt conducts workshop on data analysis
Jan. 29, 2020, 12:41 p.m.

A three-day workshop conducted by Dr Andrew Hunt of the Oceanic Fisheries Programme ( OFP) from SPC for staff of the offshore Division has taught participants with the basic knowledge on how to analyse Tuna data from the TUFMAN 2 Tuna database Management information System.

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