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.
PNA members are: Federated States of Micronesia, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Tuvalu.
Compliance includes monitoring, control and surveillance.
The person responsible for operating a licensed vessel must ensure catch data and logbooks are maintained to:
- keep daily catch and effort records on-board
- ensure records are current and available upon demand
- report the catch data to the licensing Party/s in a preliminary report within 14 days of completing each voyage, and a final report within 45 days.
For vessels larger than 20 gross registered tons, the responsible operator needs to:
- notify the relevant Party of entry into their fishing zone
- report weekly about the vessel’s position and total catch
- report time of exit from the zone, the vessel’s position and the total amount of fish on board, as well as the total catch since previous report (entry/weekly).
Transhipment of fish at sea is prohibited, regardless of location.
