Path to New Tuna Treaty a Difficult One
Delegates from American Samoa attending the 13th Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Nadi, Fiji watched as the US Ambassador to Fiji signed the new US Pacific Tuna ...Read more
Delegates from American Samoa attending the 13th Session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Nadi, Fiji watched as the US Ambassador to Fiji signed the new US Pacific Tuna ...Read more
The new Pacific Tuna Treaty which allows US purse seiners to fish in waters of 16 Pacific island countries will be signed this afternoon in Nadi, Fiji. The new treaty was concluded this year after ...Read more
Among the achievements highlighted at this year’s meeting of the Pacific Island Forum leaders, is the successful negotiation of the US Pacific Tuna Treaty. Lt. Governor Lemanu Peleti Mauga is ...Read more
American Samoa will be at the table when the United States sits down with fisheries ministers from Pacific Island Countries to try and hash out a new tuna treaty. A new round of negotiations will ...Read more
Later this month, the United States and Forum Fisheries Agency negotiators will sit down in Auckland, New Zealand for another round of talks for an agreement that would allow US purse seiners to ...Read more
Fisheries officials who belong to the bloc of Pacific island countries that have the largest exclusive economic zones in the Pacific, the PNA, Parties to the Nauru Agreement agreed at their annual ...Read more
Many will be breathing a sigh of relief upon hearing the good news that the parties have come to an agreement on a fishing deal that would allow US tuna boats back into Pacifc island waters to ...Read more
A new proposal by Pacific Island Countries that are party to the US Tuna Treaty which governs where US purse seiners that supply the two local canneries fish, is being submitted by the Fisheries ...Read more
The implications of the withdrawal of the United States from the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, which allowed purse seiners to fish in Pacific island waters, is being reviewed by the American Samoa ...Read more
It’s now official. The United States is withdrawing from the South Pacific Tuna Treaty, according to the State Department. KHJ News Washington D.C correspondent Matt Kaye reports. The United ...Read more