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
- Ensuring the sustainability of Pacific tuna: Parties to the Nauru Agreement, WWF Pacific fact sheet, 2011
Technical papers
- Baseline study and performance indicators for the Pacific Islands Oceanic Fisheries Management Project (PIOFMP II): [PDF] A report prepared for the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), by Ian Cartwright (Thalassa Consulting Pty Ltd), February 2017
- Balancing the scales: The experience of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, Josie Malamahetoa Mata Molesi Tamate, PhD thesis, 2013
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Posters & videos
- Pacifical is a company that was set up by the PNA countries to market tuna globally. In this video, Pacifical talks about its sustainable fishing policy and practice (3.48 mins).
