By Ronald Toitoona THE Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) has successfully sanctioned the regional Port State Measure (PSM) framework at its 114th meeting held in June. According to the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency’s (FFA) Director-General, Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen, “this marks a significant…
HONIARA, 14th July 2020 – A Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-3K2 Orion aircraft is currently conducting three days of aerial surveillance over Solomon Islands’ Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), a task coordinated by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency…
HONIARA, 10th July 2020 – Nine Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) Observers have been successfully repatriated to their respective countries on a chartered flight on Tuesday 7th July, 2020. All of these observers were disembarked from United States fishing boats in Pago…
An article published in today’s edition of Solomon Times on Line reminds us all that it was forty years ago that 12 Pacific leaders met in the Solomon Islands under the chairmanship of the late Rt Hon Peter Kenilorea. They…