The Federated States of Micronesia has unveiled a plan that its government believes could revolutionise the management of tuna fishing in the region, particularly long line fishing.
With help from the Nature Conservancy the FSM President Peter Christian has unveiled the Technology for Tuna Transparency Challenge, a combination of monitoring and regional pacts aimed at improving the oversight of fishing..
The initiative could lead to activity around long line fishing becoming completely transparent.
A key part of the challenge is the use of observers and as the Nature Conservancy's Mark Zimring told Don Wiseman, while the purse fishery has 100 percent observer coverage, it is less than five percent on long liners.
Tuna on the deck of a Pacific fishing vessel. Photo: RNZI/Giff Johnson
