The 15th Coral Triangle Initiative Senior Officials Meeting got underway at the Heritage Park Hotel this morning as officials deliberate on issues pertaining to the sustenance of the organisation.

New Zealand’s Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mr Fletcher Tabuteau, yesterday paid a courtesy visit to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources head office to see the projects funded by his Government.

A total of one hundred and fifty delegates are expected to arrive in Honiara by this weekend for the 15th Senior Officials meeting co-hosted by the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and Ministry of Environment.

Honiara, 21 October 2019: Offshore division staff of the Ministry of Fisheries have joined those from other Forum Fisheries Agency member countries in a series of workshops and meetings last week ahead of the Management Options Consultations Meetings (MOC) which will begin on the 28th to 31st October.

Over the last two months the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has been dealing with two separate groups from the Luapel House of Chiefs from Ontong Java.

PORT MORESBY, 11 September 2019 – Media personnel in Papua New Guinea now have a better understanding of the significance and value of tuna fisheries after three days of a fisheries-related media workshop. The workshop was held from 9-11 September in Port Moresby and brought together around twenty journalists, as well as selected journalism students from Divine Word University in Madang.

HONIARA, 26 June 2019 – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Fisheries who attended the 16th Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial Meeting in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, last week joined other ministers in signing off on a key report – the Strategic Action Programme for the Sustainable Management of Living Oceanic Resources by the Small Island Developing States of the Western and Central Pacific (the Strategic Action Programme or SAP) – for submission to the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

The new five dollar note ($5) which was launched yesterday at the Heritage Park Hotel has tuna as one of its prominent features.

The Western and Central Pacific Ocean holds the world’s largest tuna fishery with a total catch of more than 2.5 million tons a year. The target species (albacore, skipjack, bigeye and yellowfin) are being managed at sustainable levels and there is no overfishing occurring for these stocks. This is in stark contrast to all other oceans.

The Annual Parties to Nauru Agreement (PNA) officials meeting got underway in Koror, Palau this week and Solomon Islands is being replresented by a small delegation led by the Director of Fisheries Mr Edward Honiwala.