Forum Fisheries Agency Head Hails World Tuna Day, Upcoming UN Conference on Oceans
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ForeignAffairs.co.nz] by Director-General James Movick- May 2, 2017
(James Movick is head of the Forum Fisheries Agency, the Intergovernmental fisheries management agency formed by PNA and other Pacific Island states)
Our fish, our future: Celebrating the fish that feeds the world
Today, May 2, is World Tuna Day in the fullest sense of the term, as the entire Pacific region and the whole world joins celebrations of the region’s iconic fish for the first time.
May 2, first proposed and implemented by the Parties to the Nauru Agreement as a World Tuna Day five years ago, was adopted as a UN World Day on December 7th 2016. There’s certainly a heightened sense of energy and renewal for the 2017 celebration of the Pacific’s shared tuna resource.
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