PNA Meeting to Look at Banning High Seas Refueling in Tuna Fisheries
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Radio New Zealand] April 10, 2017
Nine islands that control the majority of tuna in the western and central Pacific are meeting over the next two weeks to focus on tuna management issues in the region.
The annual officials meeting of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement begins in the Marshall Islands capital Majuro today.
The PNA controls the world's largest sustainable tuna purse-seine fishery.
Its meeting is expected to endorse recommendations for action by government ministers who will meet in Majuro in two months time.
Members will look at how to implement calls to ban high-sea bunkering of fishing vessels by requiring ...
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