Seaweed farmers from Wagina last week had the opportunity to learn about seaweed disease and pest during a workshop conducted by Malaysian Professor Dr Charles Vairappan.

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.

The Governments of Japan and Solomon Islands have formalized a Grant Aid Agreement to support fisheries development programmes with the signing of documents in Honiara on Friday last week.

With English as a second or third language to many Solomon Islanders not everyone can speak it or write it well.

The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has categorically denied giving orders to a mob to demolish a building at the old ICLARM site at Aruligo.

The of the national Aquaculture and Fisheries Facility at Aruligo, North West Guadalcanal is a step closer following the ground breaking ceremony at the site yesterday morning.

Honiara 13 June 2019: There is need for a change in attitude if we ever going to tackle the issue of plastic waste, this is the message that rang out loudly as staff of the Ministry of Fisheries led a clean-up campaign on Saturday in Honiara.

Students wishing to participate in the Poster and Essay Competition to mark the World Oceans Day and Coral Triangle Initiative Day have until May 21 to submit their entries according to the organisers of the competition.

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.