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.
- More research needed into Pacific resource management: Palau govt, Radio New Zealand, November 2019
- Scientists report than PNA tuna stocks are healthy, PNA, April 2019
- PNA fisheries officials briefed by FFA on measures that promote sustainable fishing, Tuna Pacific, December 2018
- Palau joins other Pacific ministers fort tough talks ahead of tuna meeting, TunaPacific, December 2018
- PNA certified again as having sustainable skipjack and yellowfin tuna fisheries, Radio New Zealand, March 2018
- “Tuna diplomacy” building regional relationships while protecting fish stocks and improving local economies, Tuna Pacific, December 2018
- PNA members review strategic plan, particularly on management of FADs, Tuna Pacific, December 2018
- Micronesia challenges tuna-fishing nations to follow its lead in making fishing transparent by 2023, Tuna Pacific, October 2018
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