There is concern that regulations designed to prevent overfishing could be preventing developing nations from building their fishing capacity.
Taiwan's Ambassador to Tuvalu, Daniel Liao, says talks have been held about providing aid to buy a fishing vessel to be used for the domestic market.
It would to enable local fisherman to work in the open sea and access a wider range of fish.
But Mr Liao says any benefit would be undone, if Tuvalu or Taiwan had to scrap another boat in order to put a new vessel into service:
"You have to give people a break and the small island states here in the South Pacific, they only have very, very small fishing boats to catch a limit variety of fish in the shallow areas, not in the deep seas areas at all because they don't have that type of fishing vessel."
Mr Liao says all the members of international fishing organisations -- such as the Tuna Commission based in the Federated States of Micronesia -- need to ensure that small islands states have the same right to fish that larger nations already enjoy.
