Pacific oceanic fisheries resources

• Climate change and Pacific tuna fisheries, published by FFA as part of OFMP2
• Collective best practices for well-managed FAD fisheries, ISSF, March 2020
• Roadmap for electronic monitoring in RFMOs, CEA Consulting, 2020
• Transhipment: strengthening tuna RFMO transhipment regulations, ISSF, 2020
• Survey of the treatment of support/supply/tender vessels in tuna RFMOs, ISSF, 2020; covers the use of vessels to manage fish-aggregating devices (FADs) on behalf of fishing vessels
• Survey of human observer programs for purse seine vessels and a set of best practices, ISSF, 2020
• Tuna RFMO compliance assessment processes: a comparative analysis to identify best practices, ISSF, 2020
• Tuna RFMO authorised vessel lists: a comparative analysis to identify best practices, ISSF, 2020
• Combatting IUU fishing: continual improvement and best practices for IUU listing measure in tuna RFMOs, ISSF, 2020
• PacificEuropean Union Marine Partnership Programme, 2018
• Global sustainable fisheries management and biodiversity conservation in areas beyond national jurisdiction, FAO, 2017
• Caught in the middle: The story of Western and Central Pacific bigeye tuna, The Pew Charitable Trusts, 2013

• Half a century of global decline in oceanic sharks and rays, Boris Worm and others, Nature, January 2021
• Implementation of Global and Regional Oceanic Fisheries Conventions and Related Instruments in the Pacific Small Island Developing States, FFA; document of the PFOMP2 project containing background information on the significance of the Western and Central Pacific Ocean to tuna fishing, the effect of tuna fishing on marine environments, and the socio-economic
• Pacific handbook for gender equity and social inclusion in coastal fisheries and aquaculture, by Kate Barclay, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Brigitte Leduc, Connie Donato-Hunt, Natalie Makhoul, Jeff Kinch and Josephine Kalsuak, SPC, 2021 (2nd edition). Each module of the handbook can also be downloaded individually (in much smaller file size): module 1(introduction), module 2 (analysis of gender and social inclusion), module 3 (monitoring, evaluating and learning), module 4(government processes), module 5 (policy cycle), module 6 (community engagement), module 7 (coastal fisheries management), and module 8 (livelihoods).
• Gender and human right in coastal fisheries and aquaculture: a comparative analysis of legislation in Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu, by Alison Graham and Ariella DAndrea, SPC, 2021. A four-page policy brief highlights opportunities discussed in the report.
• Global Fishing Watch publishes reports that seek to result in human activity at sea being more transparent and safer. Some reports are accompanied by blog posts, visual blogs and map visualisations.
• Plastic pollution is killing marine megafauna, but how do we prioritise policies to reduce mortality?, Lauren Roman, Qamar Schuyler, Chris Wilcox and Britta Denise Hardesty, Conservation Letters, December 2020
• Satellites can reveal global extent of forced labour in worlds fishing fleet, PNAS, December 2020. See also Francisco Blahas review of the paper.
• Quantitative overview of marine debris ingested by marine megafauna, Susanne Khn and Jan Andries van Franeker, Marine Pollution Bulletin, volume 151, February 2020
• Netting billions 2020: a global tuna valuation, Pew Charitable Trustslandscape of theSIDS

• Global status and conservation potential of reef sharks, M Aaron MacNeil and others,Nature, July 2020
• Roadmap for electronic monitoring in RFMOs, CEA Consulting, 2020
• International Seafood Sustainability Foundation 2019 annual report, ISSF, 2020. An online report, with many links to detailed information throughout.
• Transhipment: strengthening tuna RFMO transhipment regulations, ISSF, 2020
• Survey of the treatment of support/supply/tender vessels in tuna RFMOs, ISSF, 2020; covers the use of vessels to manage fish-aggregating devices (FADs) on behalf of fishing vessels
• Survey of human observer programs for purse seine vessels and a set of best practices, ISSF, 2020
• Tuna RFMO compliance assessment processes: a comparative analysis to identify best practices, ISSF, 2020
• Tuna RFMO authorised vessel lists: a comparative analysis to identify best practices, ISSF, 2020
• Combatting IUU fishing: continual improvement and best practices for IUU listing measure in tuna RFMOs, ISSF, 2020
• Trends in tuna carbon isotopes suggest global changes in pelagic phytoplankton communities, by Anne Lorrain and others, including Valrie Allain,Global Change Biology, October 2019
• The disjuncture between regional ocean priorities and development assistance in the South Pacific, Jeremy Hills (University of the South Pacific) and others, Marine Policy, vol. 107, September 2019
• Measuring congruence between electronic monitoring and logbook data in Australian Commonwealth longline and gillnet fisheries, Timothy J Emery, Rocio Noriega, Ashley J Williams and James Larcombe, Ocean & Coastal Management, volume 168, 2019. See also a related paper by the same authors in Marine Policy, volume 104, 2019
• Not all who wander are lost: Improving spatial protection for large pelagic fishes, by Kristina Boerder, Laurenne Schiller, and Boris Worm, Science Direct, July 2019
• Global ensemble projections reveal trophic amplification of ocean biomass declines with climate change, Heike K. Lotze and others, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS), June 2019
• Report on the 3rd Workshop of the Tuna Compliance Network, 2224 February 2019, International MCS Network and Common Oceans ABNJ Tuna Project

• The state of world fisheries and aquaculture: meeting the sustainable development goals, FAO, 2018
• Climate change impacts, vulnerabilities and adaptations: Western and Central Pacific Ocean marine fisheries, chapter 14 of Impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture: synthesis of current knowledge, adaptation and mitigation options, FAO technical paper 627, 2018
• Impact of climate change on tropical tuna species and tuna fisheries in Pacific Island waters and high seas areas, Conservation International, December 2018
• Fisheries of the Pacific Islands: Regional and national information,FAO,2018. This publication provides a quick and general understanding of the status of fisheries and aquaculture in the Pacific Islands region. It is an update of the 2011FAOpublication,Fisheries of the Pacific Islands: Regional and national information.
• This report isdiscussed in Francisco Blahas blog, May 2018
• Policy analysis and engagement toolkit: A guide for Pacific non-government organisations in the fisheries sector, WWF, 2018, on writing and implementing more effective fisheries policies
• Why have global shark and ray landings declined: improved management or overfishing?, Lindsat N.K. Davidson, Meg A. Krawchuk and Nicholas K. Dulvy, Fish and Fisheries, 2105
• Efficiency of the circle hook in comparison with J-hook in longline fishery, Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction
• Plastic pollution in the worlds oceans: more than 5 trillion plastic pieces weighing over 250,000 tons afloat at sea, Marcus Eriksen and others, PLOS ONE, December 2014

• The $3b bargain: how China dominates Pacific mining, logging and fishing, Guardian, 31 May 2021; part of a Guardian series, Pacific plunder
• WWF position on the impacts of fisheries on oceanic sharks and rays, WWF, 2021
• Marine species increasingly cant live at equator due to global heating, Guardian, April 2021
• New fishing data paves the way for improved analysis, Global Fishing Watch, March 2021
• Retailers join calls for urgent action to restrict harmful tuna fishing methods, Guardian, March 2021; about fish-aggregating devices
• Global Fishing Watch publishes reports that seek to result in human activity at sea being more transparent and safer. Some reports are accompanied by blog posts, visual blogs and map visualisations.
• These are the plastic items that most kill whales, dolphins, turtles and seabirds, Lauren Roman, Britta Denise Hardest, Chris Wilcox and Qamar Schuyler, The Conversation, December 2020. The Guardian has a story on the same study. Some of these researchers have published other articles on the same subject, including How much plastic does it take to kill a turtle? Typically, just 14 pieces.
• Fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, INTERPOL, December 2020
• Tackling human rights abuses is critical to sustainable life at sea and on land, World Economic Forum, December 2020
• Silky sharks find hope in Atlantic, remain targets in Indo-Pacific, Science Daily, December 2020
• Its terrifyin: can anyone stop Chinas vast armada of fishing boats?, Guardian, August 2020
• Were at a crossroads: who do the fish of Hawaii belong to?, Guardian, August 2020
• Hold on brother: final days of doomed crew on Chinese shark finning boat,Guardian, July 2020
• Sharks functionally extinct at 20% of worlds coral reefs as fishing drives global decline,Guardian, July 2020; mentions that Federated States of Micronesia and French Polynesia had among the highest numbers of sharks recorded in the study, and that 8% of Palaus GDP comes from shark tourism. Thepaper of the studyis published in Nature.
• Indonesia calls for RFMO reforms in response to crew abuse on board Chinese longliners, Seafood Source, June 2020
• The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea, BBC Future, June 2020
• Indonesia seeks UN protection after deaths on Chinese fishing ships, Nikkei Asian Review, May 2020
• New fisheries management method benefits industry and ocean health, Pew Charitable Trusts, May 2020
• Tuna carry evidence of human causes of global heating, TunaPacific, February 2020
• 5 key elements for designing an electronic monitoring program, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2020; also available as a downloadable PDF

• Climate change likely to see tuna move from Pacific territories, warns scientist, TunaPacific, 10 December 2019
• Many government subsidies lead to overfishing. Heres a solution., OECD, 2019
• Fishing for the future: the case for harvest strategies, Pew Charitable Trusts, December 2019
• Electronic monitoring: a key tool for global fisheries, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2019
• Best practices for transhipment, Pew Charitable Trusts, November 2019
• Poor Filipino fishermen are making millions protecting whale sharks (in change of livelihood from fishing to tourism), The Conversation, August 2019
• How is climate change affecting tuna fish stocks?, CLS, July 2019
• Sharks: one in four habitats in remote open ocean threatened by longline fishing (including the southern periphery of the WCPO), The Conversation, July 2019
• With coordinated effort, countries gain against illegal fishing, Pew Charitable Trusts, June 2019
• Size, species, capture location: what makes tuna high on mercury?, SPC, June 2019
• “One fish at a time”: Indonesia lands remarkable victory,Guardian, January 2019
• Industrial fishing ushers the albatross closer to extinction, say researchers, Guardian, January 2019

• Owner and officers of Japanese fishing vessel charged with unlawful trafficking and smuggling of shark fins, United States Attorney’s Office, District of Hawaii, December 2018
• Misery at sea, 2018, Greenpeace report on forced labour and other human rights abuses, and poor working conditions on Taiwanese distant-water fishing vessels
• The PacificEuropean Union Marine Partnership (PEUMP) programme now in implementation phase, Fisheries Newsletter, no. 157, SPC, SeptemberDecember 2018
• A la carte menu for tuna: Kids dishes, regional and seasonalspecialities, or how tuna diets vary in the Pacific, Fisheries Newsletter, no. 157, SPC, September–December 2018
• Forty years of small-scale tuna fishery development in the Pacific: lessons learned, Fisheries Newsletter,no. 157, SPC, SeptemberDecember 2018
• Pacific tuna managers must set science-based policies, fight illegal fishing, Pew Charitable Trusts, November 2018
• Scientists recommend catch limits for Pacific fishery, TunaPacific, October 2018
• Pacific–European marine and development partnership signed, TunaPacific, September 2018
• Like water and oil: fish as a geostrategic resource, TunaPacific, August 2018
• “They are taking out a generation of tuna”: overfishing causes crisis in Philippines,Guardian, August 2018
• Sustainable management of tuna fisheries and biodiversity conservation in the ABNJ, Common Oceans ABNJ Program, FAO

The Pacific Community (SPC) hosts a data portal for members to give them data it collects on aspects of their fisheries. Countries can get up-to-date information on:

• catch by species and by type of gear used (e.g. purse seine, longline)
• characteristics of the gear used (e.g. hooks used by longliners, when purse seiners start sets)
• catch per unit of effort
• biological information about the tuna species
• data collected by observers.

• Pacific Community Centre for Ocean Science (PCCOS) aims to help Pacific Island governments and communities easily access the ocean science and expertise they need so they can make informed decisions to protect and sustainably manage ocean resources
• Pacific Data Hub, a repository of open data and knowledge products about the Pacific region. It has a section on fisheries, as well as climate crisis and the environment, and the UN sustainable development goals. Data is publicly available.