The Royal Australian Navy vessel HMAS Maitland is in the Solomon Islands to support regional fisheries operations and Solomon Islands’ maritime and border security efforts. This is part of the Australia and Solomon Islands security partnership.
Climate action and oceans realities in the Pacific Islands are the focus of the virtual tour by the United Kingdom’s Minister for Pacific and the Environment, Lord Zak Goldsmith.
The Forum Fisheries Committee Ministerial teleconference meeting is due to be held tomorrow, (Thursday 06/08/2020). Top of the agendas is the impacts of COVID-19 on regional tuna fishery.
Fisheries sector should be prioritized to sustain the country’s shrinking economy says local economist, and former Solomon Islands Prime Minister, Gordon Darcy Lilo. Mr Lilo told SIBC News in an exclusive interview this week.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has extended the proposed ban on harvesting in the country from 30 April to 31 May, 2019. Director of Fisheries, Edward Honiwala had confirmed. He said the Ministry would finalise a Gazette for the extended ban this week.
Solomon Islands has one of the healthiest tuna stocks compared to other countries in the region and beyond, says former Chief Executive Officer of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, PNA, Dr Transform Aqorau.
A new Fisheries Centre is now open at Tambea, Saghalu ward in North-West Guadalcanal. Fishermen in and around Tambea will also be able to fish at a nearby Fish Aggregating Device, FAD, installed by Fisheries officials in the area.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has announced, it is lifting the beche-de-mer ban this month. Director Fisheries Edward Honiwala said the decision follows an order to revoke the ban implemented early this year.
Small resort owners off North West Guadalcanal coast warn, the resurgence of dolphin hunting within their coastal territory is impacting negatively on their businesses.
For many people around the world, the image of the Pacific is a tranquil utopia with white sandy beaches and palm trees, but today climate change is slowly eating up the islands.
The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force Maritime Unit has boarded more than twenty foreign fishing vessels during it’s patrol over the Solomon waters this year.
“I started with only four fish and now, I have around a thousand.” Situated just outside the Western Provincial capital Gizo is a tilapia farm, owned by Jimmy Sigepitu from Ranogga island. Mr Sigepitu 71, started the farm in 2007. “I am a builder by profession and had the idea soon after i retired.
On the island of Nusa Tupe in the western Solomons, an unassuming building supports the lofty aim of sustaining marine resources. The WorldFish Nusa Tupe Research Station was initially established as a field station for the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management in the 1980s,…
The stock of beche-de-mer in the reefs around Gizo, Western Province has been depleted, according to fisheries scientist Dr Gregory Bennett. Dr Bennett manages the WorldFish research station at Nusa Tupe island near Gizo and leads a team with experience in fisheries.
All activities related to fishing or harvesting beche-de-mer in the country must stop tonight. In a statement, the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources said the five-month open harvest period would end at midnight, and no further extension would be given.
The last remaining blue boat has been destroyed. The maritime department of the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force yesterday destroyed the last of three impounded Vietnamese fishing vessels at Iron Bottom Sound.
The country’s first national environmental symposium is underway in Honiara. More than two hundred participants came together for the weeklong event that will include discussions of resource management approaches, science programs and research initiatives in the Solomon Islands over the past…
Police will continue to work with the Ministry of Fisheries in tackling illegal beche-de-mer harvesting in the country during the legal period of fishing for the delicacy.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources is keeping the Western Province within its radar following reports of illegal harvesting of Beche-de-mer in the Province. Chief Fisheries Research Officer within the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, John Legata confirms.
The Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources has started implementing the Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) as part of its plan for this year. VDS is a scheme where fishing vessels can purchase and trade fishing days at sea in places subject to the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA).
