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The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) was established by the Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPF Convention) which entered into force on 19 June 2004. The Convention was concluded after six years of negotiation which commenced in 1994. The period between the conclusion of the Convention and its entry into force was taken up by a series of Preparatory Conferences that laid the foundations for the Commission to commence its work. [Read More]
Members
Australia, China, Canada, Cook Islands, European Union, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, France, Japan, Kiribati, Republic of Korea, Republic of Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, 
Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Chinese Taipei, Tonga, Tuvalu, United States of America, Vanuatu.
Participating Territories
American Samoa, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, French Polynesia, Guam, New Caledonia, Tokelau, Wallis and Futuna
Cooperating Non-member(s)
Belize, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, Ecuador, El Salvador, Indonesia, Mexico, Senegal, St Kitts and Nevis, Panama, Thailand, Vietnam.
WCPFC News
The 9th regular session of the Scientific Committee (WCPFC-SC9) will be held in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia, from 6 (Tuesday) to 14 (Wednesday) August 2013,...
The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Tuna Fishery Yearbook, which is produced for the WCPFC by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, presents...
The Eighth Regular Session of the Scientific Committee (SC8) was held at the Lotte Hotel, Busan, Korea from 7–15 August 2012. Around 150 scientists and fishery...
Information Management: Key to the Future
Tuna management officials from the Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands...
The Seventh Regular Session of the Northern Committee (NC7) met at Sapporo, Japan from 6-9 September 2011, chaired by Mr Masanori Miyahara. The Committee reviewed...
Related News
Fish piracy nets as much as 20% of catch In a region like the Pacific that depends so heavily on tuna fishing a new study has found that as much...
...as sharks, turtles and other animals, are unintentionally killed as bycatch in the quest for tuna. The central question facing governments, corporations,
Solution: Escape Gaps for Fish Traps Bycatch. That s the fish fishers didn t mean to catch but did baby fish, species people don t like to eat,
...foreign fishing vessels. According to a recent report by the Forum Fisheries Agency, certain foreign fishing fleets were receiving subsidies in...
...now classified as overexploited but some environmental groups, but 2011 WCPFC data showed that although fishing pressure on yellowfin is high,