The Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) controls the world’s largest sustainable tuna purse-seine fishery. PNA countries provide around 50% of the global supply of skipjack tuna, the most commonly canned tuna.
The PNA members are: Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
Fact sheets
- Bycatch reduction in global tuna fisheries, Lenfest Ocean Program, July 2011
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Technical papers
- Draft best practice mitigation guidelines for sharks and rays taken in purse-seine and long-line fisheries, Conservation of Migratory Sharks Working Group, 2016
- Bycatch in longline fisheries for tuna and tuna-like species, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper 588, 2014
Popular articles
- Parties to the Nauru Agreement push for increased catch of “free school” tuna, Pacific Islands Report, May 2017
Posters & Videos
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