A recent workshop organised by the Pacific Community has made significant progress in identifying the likelihood that each of the four tropical tuna species is comprised of separate stocks (self-replenishing populations). The workshop also identified the investments needed to identify the number, size, distribution and behaviour of all stocks comprising a tuna species in a Pacific Ocean context, and developed a strategic plan to implement this foundational research. The workshop and subsequent work identified a draft ‘Strategic Plan to Identify the Stock Structure of Tropical Pacific Tuna’. The investments involved in the sampling and analyses required to identify the stock structure of each tuna species are considered to be an urgent priority, given the great significance of tuna to Pacific Island economies and the mobility of tuna species. This report provides a comprehensive technical review on a species by species basis of the methods applied to date, and current knowledge of stock structure.

The document summarizes results obtained during the noted Round 8.15 workshop.

A ressing the need to enhance sustainability in the use of deep-sea living resources and biodiversity conservation in in the ABNJ, is the Common Oceans ABNJ Deep Seas Project, one of the Projects of the Global sustainable fisheries management and biodiversity conservation in the ABNJ Program (Common Oceans ABNJ Program), supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).  The Project, led by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN-FAO) and United Nations Environment (UNEP), brings together a broad range of partners working on conservation issues in the ABNJ globally. The partnership includes the regional fisheries bodies responsible for the management of deep-sea fisheries, Regional Seas Programmes, fishing industry partners and international organizations.  

The objective of the following report is to present a business case focusing on the identification and assessment of opportunities for investment in a new and innovative Centre of Excellence for International Fisheries Development (CEIFD), based in Chennai, south India, which might be attractive to private and public investors. The work was undertaken in 2018 as part of the World Bank/GEF-funded Oceans Partnership Programme in the Bay of Bengal (OPP-BOB), hosted by the Bay of Bengal Inter-Governmental Organisation (BOBP-IGO) in Chennai.

This document provides an overview of the Caribbean Billfish Project's study on Mercury Contents in Commercial Billfish Species of the Western Central Atlantic.