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Regional Fisheries Management Organisation

[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row gap=”35″ equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle” css_animation=”fadeInDown”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Fiji is a party to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), which was established by the Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean which entered into force in 2004. For a fishery, like the Fiji national fishing fleet, that targets the highly migratory fish species (tuna) within the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO), it is important that we partake with our relevant government officials during its Regular sessions ensuring that conservation and management measures adopted at such meetings are well discussed and understood since they are binding to members and implemented by the fishing fleets. The adopted measures ensures the sustainability of the targeted tuna species and the tuna-like species, and the protection of non-targeted fish species like sharks, sea turtles, seabirds and marine mammals to name a few. In the 2024 Regular session held in Suva, Fiji a first for all RFMOs was achieved, when a measure on crew labour standards on board fishing vessels was adopted and to come into force on 1 January 2028[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”147″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][/vc_row]