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Difficult part of the job.... How do you balance showing the capabilities of the tools (with privacy protection) at your disposal versus counteracting the prevailing press narrative that fisheries are out of control?

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Marshall Islands

Local fish reception staff

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Kiribati

Fishers are some of the most genuine human beings you’ll ever meet.

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Kiribati

Coastal fishing family in Kiritimati

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Solomon Islands

Sunrise in a Pole and Liner

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Guinea-Bissau

From a human perspective, my week working on this African-owned and crewed trawler in Guinea-Bissau was one of the most rewarding trips I have ever had.

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Kiribati

Boarding a Purse Seiner as part of the Port State Measures operations and initiating the transhipment monitoring

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Guinea-Bissau

Fishers are some of the most genuine human beings you’ll ever meet.

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Guinea-Bissau
       
     
Guinea-Bissau

From a human perspective, my week working on this African-owned and crewed trawler in Guinea-Bissau was one of the most rewarding trips I have ever had.

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Marshall Islands

Fishers… the only real champions of industry in my opinion.

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Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Marshall Islands

A crew member in a transhipping Purse Seiner.

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Marshall Islands

Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Marshall Islands

Young fisheries officers I work with. If one really cares for the future of sustainable fisheries, forget ecolabels, meetings, and agreements. Just do whatever you can so all of them (all over the world) have the training and resources they need and that they can look at their salary payments with a sense of pride.

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Baiter in action on a locally crewed Pole & Line

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Marshall Islands

Crew fixing the net in a Purse Seiner.

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Marshall Islands

Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Marshall Islands

Crew net mending on a Chinese Purse Seiner

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Marshall islands

Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Transhipment view from the crows nest

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Marshall Islands

Crew on a Purse Seiner

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Kiribati

Jose from the Philippines on a Taiwanese PS. I was on my way home the next day... he still had 17 months to go on his contract. He has my full respect.

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Marshall Islands

Boarding incoming Fishing Vessels as part of PSM procedures

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Kiribati

Transhipment monitor ready to start his work, it may take up to 5 days (weather dependent) to tranship a Purse Seiner load.

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Solomon Islands

Onboard a Pole & Line vessel

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Kiribati

Urban fishermen in the shallows of the Betio Causeway.

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Kiritimati Island

Being back fishing with small scale fishers was a highlight in 2018, loved it.

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Port in the Western Central Pacific

Crew in a Taiwanese Longliner

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Thailand

Night unloading in private ports

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Marshall Islands

Munua, a Fisheries Observer from Tuvalu doing his work

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Sri Lanka

Welcome back

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Marshall Islands

Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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INDIA
       
     
INDIA

Fishers in Orissa state. Working with them for a month was one of the most humbling experiences of my life.

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Marshall Islands

Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Peru
       
     
Peru

Scallops Farmer, Cechura

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Solomon Islands

Every week, tons of fish leave the Pacific in containers aimed to Asia

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Solomon Islands

A small prayer before starting work

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Marshall Islands

Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Timor Leste

People is fishing

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Kiritimati Island

Training small scale fishers

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Kiribati
       
     
Kiribati

Urbsn fisherman in the Betio causeway

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Solomon Islands

One of the many awesome smiles in Noro

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Kiribati

An everyday scene in Tarawa, tuna is life here

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Solomon Islands

Unloaders

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Solomon Islands

Plenty fish my friend

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Philippines

Unloading yellowfin in General Santos

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Kiribati

Controlling Transhipments in Port

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Maldives
       
     
Maldives

Unloading Yellowfin near Male

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Switzerland

UN Palais des Nations in Geneva

Panellist at the 4th Oceans Forum on trade-related aspects of SDG 14 on subsidies. 2020

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India

Training Fisherman, Orisa State

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Waiheke Island, New Zealand

My home break, Palm Beach/Mawhitipana, 300 down the road of the house

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Philippines

Unloading Yellowfin in General Santos

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India

Damhra Shipyard workers

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India

Dahmra Shipyard workers

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Peru

Schrimp farmer

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Timor Leste

Fisher's Cooperative cook hosting us

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Nicaragua

Prepearing "Ceviche de Concha Negra"

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India

Fisher proud of his catch, Vizag

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Mozambique

Dried Fish Merchant

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Solomon Islands

Baiter on a Pole and Liner

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Marshall Islands

Implementing PSM in Majuro, the busiest tuna transhipment port in the Pacific.

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Resource owners in the forefront, resource beneficiaries in the background... The key problem in the Pacific tuna fisheries

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Solomon Islands

Young coastal Fisherman in Noro

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Marshall Islands

Crew member during a tea break while transhipping

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Peru
       
     
Peru

Scallops Farmer, Cechura

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Controlling Transshipments

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Crew member in a Chinese Purse Seiner

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Marshall Islands

Crew are the base, but unfortunately not a the forefront, of commercial fisheries.

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Marshall Islands

Working on the hold of a PS during transhipment up to 5 days of winching frozen tuna.

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PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Fruits and good sellers in Rabaul

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New Zealand
       
     
New Zealand

My friend Jan being picked up at my local wharf here in Waiheke

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Indonesia
       
     
Indonesia

Unloading of tuna bycatch in Bali Fishing Port

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

On board a Pole & Line

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Solomon Islands

Transhipping crew

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Pressent for a wedding

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Kiritimati Island
       
     
Kiritimati Island

Subsistence fisher’s hard life, yet in incredible colours

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Kiribati
       
     
Kiribati

Small scale fisherman in Bairiki

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MARSHALL ISLANDS

Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Marshall Island

PSM in action. MIMRA officer crosschecks suspicious vessel behaviors identified in the VMS (map on the lower left) with Logbooks, catch logsheets, temperature records, etc. found on board.

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Kiritimati Island

Subsistence fisherman back from an afternoon fishing

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Mozambique
       
     
Mozambique

Subsistence fisher in Racine. Doesn’t matter where in different continents... is the same hard life.

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Kiribati

Pacific Island Crew on a Chinese vessel

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Marshall Island
       
     
Marshall Island

Riin from Kiribati is one of the growing number of female Fisheries Observers we have on fishing vessels across the WCP. This is very encouraging and good sign of progress in our industry.

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Marshall Island

Working of a fishing boat was never to be easy job, but it used to be a well paid job.

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Kiribati
       
     
Kiribati

Chinese crew member on a Chinese vessel

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Kiribati

iKiribati and Chinese crew on a Chinese flagged purse seiner ready to tranship in Tarawa.

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Friends in charge of the fish meal unit at the locally owned tuna processing plant

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Ecuador
       
     
Ecuador

Tarqui Beach

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Solomon Islands

Controlling Longliners

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Solomon Islands

Transhipping crew

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Ecuador

Tarqui Beach

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Solomon Islands

Proud tuna worker, Noro

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Peru
       
     
Peru

Ferry to fishing boats in Paita

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Mozambique
       
     
Mozambique

Fishers fixing their boat on the beach

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Kiritimati Island
       
     
Kiritimati Island

My neighbours

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Controlling by-catch transhipment from a taiwanese longliner in Noro

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Kiritimati Island
       
     
Kiritimati Island

Training small scale fishers

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Crew in a Purse Seiner waiting to start tranship

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Fruits and good seller in Rabaul

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands


The language barrier in between skipper and port state officers... translator on the phone... one of the many challenges of fisheries compliance work in the Pacific

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Skipper looking for tuna activity in the horizon

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Subsistence Fisher

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Chinese crew in a Chinese owned but FSM flagged longliner.

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Fishers are some other most genuine human beings you’ll ever meet.

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Kiribati
       
     
Kiribati

Boarding vessels for inspection in Tarawa

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

On board a Pole & Line boat

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Thailand
       
     
Thailand

Unloading Tuna from the Pacific in Bangkok

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Kids in an old canoe getting 'leakage" tuna from a local purseiner

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Fixing the net in Kitano wharf, Noro

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Palau
       
     
Palau

Lunch break during work

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Samoa
       
     
Samoa

View from the deck of longliners while being inspected.

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Peru
       
     
Peru

Fleet in Chimbote

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Net repairing at Kitano wharf, Noro.

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Record number of Purse Seiners waiting to tranship in June 2019

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Federated States of Micronesia

Transhipments in Phonpei lagoon

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Seen on the galley of a Taiwanese Purse Seiner

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Timor Leste
       
     
Timor Leste

Fishers have the best smiles

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Subsistence Fisherman

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Checking logsheets on a taiwanese longliner

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Boarding for Inspection in Rabaul

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South Chile
       
     
South Chile

Low tide in Chiloe

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Life at sea
       
     
Life at sea

Indonesian fisherman unloading -50C bycatch from a Taiwanese Longliner.

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Guatemala
       
     
Guatemala

Working with artisanal Fishers. Photo by Manoel Cifuentes

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Papua New Guinea

Fruit seller to transshipping vessels in Rabaul

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Spain
       
     
Spain

Local fisherman in Vigo.

79% of the EU fleet is less than 10m long.

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Guatemala
       
     
Guatemala

The emptiness of the seas.

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Ecuador
       
     
Ecuador

Measuring Sharks in Tarqui Beach

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Learning to catch dinner near Nago Island, Niu Irlan

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Subsistence Fishers

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Uruguay
       
     
Uruguay

Unloading the truck, Montevideo

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Logsheets need to be completed at sea (even if you are from Taiwan)

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Chile
       
     
Chile

Purse Seiners (Cerqueros)

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India
       
     
India

Fisher's canteen cook

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Ecuador
       
     
Ecuador

Mahi (Perico) filleting, Tarqui Beach

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Nicaragua
       
     
Nicaragua

Taking wood to smokehouse

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Canoes based veggies seller at the transhipment hub of Raboul

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Argentina
       
     
Argentina

Photo by M. Capizano in Mar del Plata (my original home port)

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Crew of a Taiwanese longliner (mostly indonesians) waiting departure

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Maldives
       
     
Maldives

Male fish market

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Transhipment in Rabaul

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Maldives
       
     
Maldives

Unloading after a trip

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Mozambique
       
     
Mozambique

Local fisherman near Beira

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Honiara's market wharf

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Unloading and sorting tuna in Noro

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

MCS is more about people than just rules

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Guatemala
       
     
Guatemala

Fisher's widows

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Solomon Islands

Training Inspectors and Industry people in Noro

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Solomon Islands

Local cargo boat delivering goods in Munda

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Ecuador
       
     
Ecuador

Mahi Mahi (Perico) unloads in Tarqui Beach

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India
       
     
India

Unloading in Vizag

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Sri Lanka
       
     
Sri Lanka

No discarding here... all is used

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Traditional "fish payment" to the local village for using their channel

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Guatemala
       
     
Guatemala

Old shrimp trawler

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Chile
       
     
Chile

Local Fisherman comming to unload

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Uruguay
       
     
Uruguay

Unloadings in Montevideo

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Sri Lanka
       
     
Sri Lanka

Everything has a value and is eaten

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Doing mass balance audits

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Papua New Guinea
       
     
Papua New Guinea

Paper work on transshipments

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Marshall Islands
       
     
Marshall Islands

Boarding party

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High Seas (north of NZ)
       
     
High Seas (north of NZ)

Spotting for tuna (circa 1999)

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India
       
     
India

Training inspectors

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Solomon Islands
       
     
Solomon Islands

Working on Pole and Line vessel

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Thailand
       
     
Thailand

Being given the Seafood Champion Award for Advocacy in 2019, was a big honour

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New Zealand
       
     
New Zealand

Dusky Sound, Fiordland

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SOLOMON ISLANDS
       
     
SOLOMON ISLANDS

The inception of the eNoro initiative, the 1st fully data integrated port in the Pacific, from vessel arrival notification to canned tuna exports.

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