PNG through the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources and National Fisheries Authority (NFA) has sent at least 40 people to attend the Ninth Regular Session of the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC9) meeting in Manila, Philippines.
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| Ministers Zeming and Tomscoll at the meet with other PNG officials |
This meeting has commenced on December 2 and ends on December 6, 2012. The PNG contingent is led by Mao Zeming, Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources and at officials’ level by the Managing Director of NFA Sylvester Pokajam.
The other PNG delegation comprises Nixon Duban, Member for Madang and Minister for Internal Security (Police); Tommy Tomscoll, Member for Middle Ramu and Minister for Agriculture and Livestock; Jim Kas, Governor of Madang; Sylvester Pokajam, Managing Director of National Fisheries Authority, Department of Foreign Affairs representatives, Department of Attorney-General representatives, NFA board representatives, the provincial fisheries representatives, the fishing industry representatives and the NFA’s fisheries scientists and technical team.
Papua New Guinea’s participation as a Commission Member is triggered by the fact that it has one of the most lucrative tuna fishing grounds in the Western Pacific Ocean. In fact, PNG contributes more than 60 percent of catch in the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) sub-regional grouping of the most lucrative tuna fishing grounds in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. At the global scale, 20 percent of total global tuna stock is found in PNG waters.
This means that total annual raw materials of tuna fish that can be harvested from PNG waters is about 700,000 metric tones which is about US$ 2 billion annually in dollar value.
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