All WCPFC articles
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NewsDelivering on science while delaying monitoring for Pacific tuna fisheries: ISSF’s response to the WCPFC annual meeting
When WCPFC members align around shared scientific objectives, significant outcomes are possible, global coalition says
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NewsOPINION: Securing the Pacific’s tuna future – ISSF issues priorities for WCPFC’s 22nd session
Decisive action needed in managing FADs, strengthening at-sea transhipment regulation and port state controls
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NewsTropical tuna purse seine fishing fleet expands
ISSF report shows growth in vessel numbers with minimal capacity increase
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NewsGTA welcomes Indian Ocean fisher welfare progress
Multi-stakeholder group buoyed by positive response to proposals addressing “critical labour welfare issues” in region’s tuna fisheries
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NewsOp-Ed: Electronic monitoring revival shows we can still do hard things
ISSF President Susan Jackson says RFMOs are making dramatic strides towards worldwide EMS standards
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NewsPacific tuna fishing meeting outcomes lauded
ISSF welcomes new measures adopted by WCPFC, including minimum standards for electonic monitoring
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NewsCanada asked to stand against sustainability secrecy
Accountability.Fish highlights a lack of transparency within the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission
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NewsWCPFC pressed to end closed meetings
Accountability.Fish is urging the WCPFC to open the door to scrutiny and end the ‘gratuitous’ practice of closed meetings
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NewsAccountability.Fish: NZ refusing to back an end to WCPFC secrecy
Government won’t support the call to allow observer involvement in the full compliance monitoring process, says NGO
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NewsOpinion: How Pacific bluefin tuna’s woes were reversed
Turnaround owes much to science and collaboration, explains leading researcher and International Scientific Committee member Dr Michel Dreyfus
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NewsWCPFC slammed for excluding NGO observers from meetings
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission urged to allow greater civil society participation
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NewsIATTC electronic monitoring ‘win’ welcomed
New minimum standards will lead to improved tuna fisheries management, says ISSF
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NewsWCPFC member states urged to uphold UN agreement
Accountability.Fish says the 17 members of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency have been blocking the attendance of observers
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NewsOp-Ed: Make 2024 the year that EM becomes ‘business as usual’ in global tuna fisheries
International Seafood Sustainability Foundation President Susan Jackson urges action to unlock the transformative impacts of electronic monitoring
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NewsISSF urges WPCFC tuna fishery improvements
WCPFC is the only tuna RFMO with a compliance assessment process that is closed to accredited observers
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NewsOp-Ed: Secrecy in fisheries management – bad news for the world’s oceans
Accountability.Fish Global Director Ryan Orgera addresses the implications of closed shop RFMOs
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NewsISSF calls for stronger tuna management from ICCAT
The RFMO is being urged to adopt stronger conservation measures, bolster compliance and also clarify regulations for FADs
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NewsOp-Ed: Time for action not words – making Pacific tuna sustainable
Accountability.Fish Global Director Ryan Orgera discusses the inconsistent rhetoric and behaviour of the WCPFC
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NewsJelly FADs present a sustainable solution
The development of fish aggregation devices that are biodegradable and non-entangling has been the subject of a new trial
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NewsAccountability.Fish warns of high seas exploitation
Fisheries governance pressure group says urgent action is required to keep industrial fishers from “pulling a fast one”
