Fiji's tuna exports have been hit by declining fish stocks.
Photo: RNZI/Giff Johnson
Fiji's fisheries minister, Semi Koroilavesau, said the country's export would only be 10,000 tonnes this year.
This would be down 2000 tonnes on what was exported last year.
Mr Koroilavesau told the Fiji Times this was because of the decreasing tuna population in Fiji waters, caused by changing weather patterns.
A Chinese fishing company has been fined more than $800,000, after captains misreported tuna catches.
The Forum Fisheries Agency says there has been a major reduction in illegal fishing vessels in the South Pacific tuna fishery.
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, or the Tuna Commission, has rejected a proposal to strengthen rules that would help eliminate shark finning.
Conservation and management measures for depleted tuna stocks in the Pacific have polarised the membership of the Pacific Tuna Commission.
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