Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiated a second OFMP, called OFMP2, in June 2016.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) initiated a second OFMP, called OFMP2, in June 2016.
The project is being implemented for the benefit of the governments of Pacific small island developing states (SIDS):
The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is implementing the project, which is managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The OFMP2 builds on an earlier GEF project that built the foundations, institutions and capacity for more sustainable Pacific fisheries management.
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Convention (WCPF Convention) established the Commission and aims to reform, realign, restructure and strengthen SIDS’ national fisheries laws, policies, institutions and programs.
The objective of OFMP2 is:
To support Pacific SIDS in meeting their obligations to implement and effectively enforce global, regional and sub-regional arrangements for the conservation and management of transboundary oceanic fisheries thereby increasing sustainable benefits derived from these fisheries.
The project:
Read a detailed description of the project, and its evolution, in this report.
The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) controls the world’s largest sustainable tuna purse-seine fishery.
Members include: Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
The Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG) works together on regional issues of common interest.
Members include: Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and the Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front (FLNKS).
Te Vaka Moana (TVM) is a group of Pacific Island Fisheries Administrations who develop, manage and protect South Pacific fisheries for the long-term benefit of their countries and people.
Members include: the Cook Islands, New Zealand, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau and Tonga.
There is a detailed description of these regional organisations and their history in the OFMP2 project baseline report, section 6.3.