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Illegal fishing moves on agenda for Pacific fisheries in New Zealand

Xinhua, April 8, 2016 Adjust font size:

Fisheries ministers from 10 Pacific island states will gather in New Zealand next week to discuss methods of dealing with illegal fishing and resource management.

"The Pacific's largest asset economic asset is its fisheries and we are committed to helping Pacific nations to manage this resource in a sustainable way," Foreign Minister Murray McCully said in a statement Friday.

"At last year's Pacific Islands Forum, we announced 50 million NZ dollars (33.92 million U.S. dollars) to support the development of a catch-based management system in the Pacific and this visit by Pacific ministers builds on that commitment," said McCully.

"A regional catch-based management regime will provide Pacific governments with the information they need to address illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing, and more effectively manage the resource."

The four-day event will involve ministers from the Cook Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Niue, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu and will include meetings in Auckland and Wellington. Endit