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 Pacific Ocean and Its Implications for the Pacific Island States plus Appendix

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-431
Author(s):  
T. Aqorau
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Migratory Fish ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Central Pacific Ocean ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
Tuna Fisheries

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.

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.

Reshaping International Fisheries Development: Assimilating the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the United States under the PNA Vessel Day Scheme (VDS)

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-76
Author(s):  
Transform Aqorau
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Migratory Fish ◽  
Central Pacific ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Island States ◽  
Unrestricted Access ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
The Government

Abstract Since June 1988, Pacific Island States and the United States have co-operated in fisheries management, conservation and development through the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States. The renegotiation of the Treaty has presented challenges. The Treaty worked perfectly under an open and unrestricted access regime. However, changes instituted by Pacific Island States and the Commission for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific have tested the utility of the Treaty. This article discusses these changes, and these challenges, including the implications of the Vessel Day Scheme. The article concludes that having unimpeded multiple-zone access is inimical to a rights-based system such as the purse-seine Vessel Day Scheme.

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.

Introduction: The New Scramble for the Pacific: A Frontier Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76
Author(s):  
Elodie Fache ◽  
Pierre-Yves Le Meur ◽  
Estienne Rodary
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Marine Resources ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Island States ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Pacific Island States ◽  
External Powers

Over the last decades, the Pacific Ocean has been the locus of an unequalled rush for space and resources involving intertwined public and corporate interests, external powers, and Pacific Island states and territories. This rush is driven by three intersecting motivations aiming to: (1) exploit marine resources; (2) protect marine biodiversity and mitigate the effects of climate change; and (3) establish sovereignties over marine spaces. In this context, the fluidity of saltwater environments gives rise to specific issues of enforcement, control, and governance. This special issue examines these reconfigurations of/in the Pacific Ocean, stressing potentially conflicting frontier processes, in the light of a structuring tension between trends of ocean grabbing and ocean commoning.

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