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
- Gender and fisheries in Fiji: summary of key issues, SPC, 2019
- Gender and fisheries in Samoa: summary of key issues, SPC, 2019
- Gender and fisheries in Tonga: summary of key issues, SPC, 2019
- Gender and fisheries in Vanuatu: summary of key issues, SPC, 2019
- Ensuring the sustainability of Pacific tuna: Parties to the Nauru Agreement, WWF Pacific, 2011
Technical papers
- Gender in tuna value chains: case studies from Indonesia and Solomon Islands, Women in Fisheries Bulletin, no. 31, SPC, March 2020
- Assessing tuna fisheries governance for community wellbeing: case studies from Indonesia and Solomon Islands. Summary report, by Nicholas McClean, Kate Barclay and others, University of Technology, Sydney, 2019
- Assessing tuna fisheries governance for community wellbeing: case studies from Indonesia and Solomon Islands, full report, by Nicholas McClean, Kate Barclay and others, University of Technology, Sydney, 2019
- Improving tuna governance institutions by the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, Wageningen University & Research, 2016
- How tuna is shaping regional diplomacy, by Transform Aqorau, chapter in The New Pacific Diplomacy, edited by Greg Fry and Sandra Tarte, published by ANU Press, The Australian National University, 2015
- A new approach to maximize economic benefits from tuna resources: Development of the concept, report by Kwame Mfodwo to the Forum Fisheries Agency, 2009
Popular articles
- Facing gender equality head on helps Soltuna succeed, International Finance Corporation, March 2019
- Small islands, big opportunities, Marine Stewardship Council, 2016
- Interview with Maurice Brownjon, commercial adviser to PNA, IUCN, June 2015
Posters & videos
- Marshall Islands fresh tuna processing, Marshall Islands Journal, video (2 min. 31 sec.), 2017
- Pacifical: The MSC sustainable & social tuna approach, video (4.55 mins)
(Pacifical is tuna marketed by PNA countries)
