Recreational billfish catches and gamefishing facilities of Pacific Island nations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

2003 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wade Whitelaw
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Purse Seine ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Tax Relief ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Nations ◽  
Subsistence Fishing ◽  
Pacific Community

Gamefishing is a developing industry for many of the Pacific Island nations, with a number of countries encouraging the industry with tax relief and tourism promotion. This paper was prepared to provide a preliminary appraisal of gamefish facilities and recreational billfish catches of Pacific Island countries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. The level of development of gamefishing varies among Pacific Island nations, with fishers of some countries only carrying out subsistence fishing (including billfish), whereas others have a well-developed gamefishing infrastructure. The gamefish facilities of each country are described, including charter operations, number of private vessels and berthing facilities. Estimates of recreationally caught billfish are also provided for each Pacific Island nation. These estimates have been facilitated by the development of a gamefish catch and effort database by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Presently, an estimated 1050 metric tonnes of marlin are caught by gamefishing in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, which compares with an estimate of around 18 000 metric tonnes caught by commercial longline and purse seine vessels.

Moving towards a Rights-Based Fisheries Management Regime for the Tuna Fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Transform Aqorau
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Island States ◽  
Management Regime ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
Tuna Fisheries

AbstractThe 2000 Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPF Convention) establishes a Commission which will be responsible for setting catch limits and effort controls for the fishery. The Convention will require the Pacific Island States to impose some form of catch limits and this presents them with the opportunity to explore ways to enhance the fisheries regimes they manage. This paper explores the legal issues surrounding a possible rights-based regime, both as a collective approach by the Pacific Island States, and individually. The paper suggests possible legal approaches to the introduction of a rights-based fisheries management regime, drawing on ways in which they may structure their fisheries legislation, and on experiences from other regions. The paper concludes by examining the implications for the Pacific Island States of such an approach.

Tuna Fisheries Management in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean: A Critical Analysis of the Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central I Pacific Ocean and Its Implications for the Pacific Island States

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-431
Author(s):  
Transform Aqorau
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Migratory Fish ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
Conservation And Management

AbstractThe conclusion of the UN Fish Stocks Agreement in 1995 provided the impetus for changes to international fisheries law. The western and central Pacific region provides at least 60 per cent of the world's supply of raw tuna. Since 1994, efforts have been ongoing to develop a comprehensive conservation and management regime there. On 5 September, 2000, the Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean was concluded and signed. It represents a new threshold in international tuna management as it builds on the principles in the Fish Stocks Agreement. The article analyses the implications of the Convention for the Pacific Island States and what it will mean for tuna management in the region. The Convention is an instrument that will empower the Pacific Island States to harness the resource in a way that enhances their sovereign rights. However, the article points out that the Convention is also threatening because fishing states might want to use it to weaken the control Pacific Island States now have over the tuna resource. The article concludes that the Convention increases the economic opportunities to benefit from the tuna resource and clarifies the legal rights over the resource.

scholarly journals Marine pollution originating from purse seine and longline fishing vessel operations in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, 2003–2015

AMBIO ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey Richardson ◽  
David Haynes ◽  
Anthony Talouli ◽  
Michael Donoghue
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Marine Pollution ◽  
Purse Seine ◽  
Fishing Vessel ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean

scholarly journals Reply

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (19) ◽  
pp. 5192-5194 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. M. Penny ◽  
G. H. Roe ◽  
D. S. Battisti
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Interannual Variability ◽  
Storm Track ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Recent Comment ◽  
Full Dataset ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Midwinter Suppression

Penny et al. recently showed that the midwinter suppression in storminess over the western and central Pacific Ocean is due to a reduction in the number and amplitude of “seed” disturbances entering the Pacific storm track from midlatitude Asia. In this reply, the authors strengthen the conclusions that were originally put forth and show that the apparent departure from this behavior presented in a recent comment originates in the commenters having undersampled the full dataset of interannual variability. It is shown that when the Pacific storm track is only weakly “seeded” by an upstream source, as is common during winter and uncommon during fall and spring, it is likely to be weaker than average, and this reduction is highly statistically significant and the amplitude compares well with the midwinter suppression.

scholarly journals A critique of the ecosystem impacts of drifting and anchored FADs use by purse-seine tuna fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruno Leroy ◽  
Joe Scutt Phillips ◽  
Simon Nicol ◽  
Graham M. Pilling ◽  
Shelton Harley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Purse Seine ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Ecosystem Impacts ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Tuna Fisheries

scholarly journals Persistence of deeply sourced iron in the Pacific Ocean

2015 ◽  
Vol 112 (5) ◽  
pp. 1292-1297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tristan J. Horner ◽  
Helen M. Williams ◽  
James R. Hein ◽  
Mak A. Saito ◽  
Kevin W. Burton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Carbon Fixation ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Oceanic Circulation ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean

Biological carbon fixation is limited by the supply of Fe in vast regions of the global ocean. Dissolved Fe in seawater is primarily sourced from continental mineral dust, submarine hydrothermalism, and sediment dissolution along continental margins. However, the relative contributions of these three sources to the Fe budget of the open ocean remains contentious. By exploiting the Fe stable isotopic fingerprints of these sources, it is possible to trace distinct Fe pools through marine environments, and through time using sedimentary records. We present a reconstruction of deep-sea Fe isotopic compositions from a Pacific Fe−Mn crust spanning the past 76 My. We find that there have been large and systematic changes in the Fe isotopic composition of seawater over the Cenozoic that reflect the influence of several, distinct Fe sources to the central Pacific Ocean. Given that deeply sourced Fe from hydrothermalism and marginal sediment dissolution exhibit the largest Fe isotopic variations in modern oceanic settings, the record requires that these deep Fe sources have exerted a major control over the Fe inventory of the Pacific for the past 76 My. The persistence of deeply sourced Fe in the Pacific Ocean illustrates that multiple sources contribute to the total Fe budget of the ocean and highlights the importance of oceanic circulation in determining if deeply sourced Fe is ever ventilated at the surface.

Reconstructing ecosystem dynamics in the central Pacific Ocean, 1952–1998. II. A preliminary assessment of the trophic impacts of fishing and effects on tuna dynamics

2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (11) ◽  
pp. 1736-1747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P Cox ◽  
Timothy E Essington ◽  
James F Kitchell ◽  
Steven J.D. Martell ◽  
Carl J Walters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Ecosystem Dynamics ◽  
Fishing Mortality ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Predation Mortality ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Multispecies Model ◽  
Predator Abundance ◽  
Large Predators

Pelagic fisheries in the Pacific Ocean target both large (Thunnus spp.) and small tunas (juveniles of Thunnus spp; Katsuwonus pelamis) but also take billfishes (Xiphias gladius, Makaira spp., Tetrapturus spp., Istiophorus platypterus) and sharks (Prionace glauca, Alopias superciliosus, Isurus oxyrinchus, Carcharhinus longimanus, Galeocerdo cuvieri) as bycatch. We developed a multispecies model using the Ecopath with Ecosim software that incorporated time-series estimates of biomass, fishing mortality, and bycatch rates (1952–1998) to evaluate the relative contributions of fishing and trophic impacts on tuna dynamics in the central Pacific (0°N to 40°N and 130°E to 150°W). The Ecosim model reproduced the observed trends in abundance indices and biomass estimates for most large tunas and billfishes. A decline in predation mortality owing to depletion of large predators was greatest for small yellowfin tuna and could possibly account for apparent increases in biomass. For other tunas, however, predicted changes in predation mortality rates were small (small bigeye) or were overwhelmed by much larger increases in fishing mortality (skipjack and small albacore). Limited evidence of trophic impacts associated with declining apex predator abundance likely results from the difficulties of applying detailed trophic models to open ocean systems in which ecological and fishery data uncertainties are large.

scholarly journals Stakelama pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Sphingomonadaceae isolated from the Pacific Ocean

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (12) ◽  
pp. 2857-2861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuang Chen ◽  
Qiang Zheng ◽  
Ya-Nan Wang ◽  
Xiao-Jun Yan ◽  
Li-Kai Hao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
Aerobic Bacterium ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Family ◽  
Novel Genus And Species ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Ubiquinone 10

A Gram reaction-negative, weakly motile, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped, aerobic bacterium designated strain JLT832T was isolated from surface water of the central Pacific Ocean and formed yellow colonies on rich organic (RO) medium. The strain was oxidase-negative and catalase-positive. Acid was produced from mannitol, glucose, sucrose, lactose, sorbitol, maltose, (+)-trehalose and d-fructose. No acid was produced from d-(+)-xylose. The major cellular fatty acids of strain JLT832T were C18 : 1 ω7c, C14 : 0 2-OH and C16 : 0. The major polar lipids were sphingoglycolipid, diphosphatidylglycerol, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylethanolamine. Ubiquinone-10 and spermidine were present as the major quinone and polyamine, respectively. The genomic DNA G+C content of strain JLT832T was 66.0±0.5 mol%. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences indicated that the new isolate formed a tight branch within the family Sphingomonadaceae but was clearly separate from established genera in this family. The sequence similarities between the new isolate and type strains of established genera ranged from 90.5 to 94.9 %. Based on these data, strain JLT832T constitutes a novel genus and species, for which the name Stakelama pacifica gen. nov., sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain of Stakelama pacifica is JLT832T (=CGMCC 1.7294T =LMG 24686T).

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