Last week saw the Cook Islands host one of the most significant meetings with respect to the shared tuna stocks in the region. That was the annual session of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, better known in the region as simply “the tuna commission”.
It has been a busy school holiday period working alongside the Cook Islands Voyaging Society, Kōrero o te ‘Ōrau and 40 plus senior ‘Ātui’anga ki te Tango and Mata Nātura students from Aitutaki, Mitiaro, Atiu, Mauke, Mangaia and Rarotonga.
This column has been started with a definition, so readers can identify when and how the defined word relates to the following topic. Now to some acronyms. This column relates to recent developments that have resulted in a ban on deployment of Fish Aggregation Devices (FADs) and artificial reefs (ARs) within the entire Great Barrier Reef (GBR
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