ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the problems and complexities of the tuna fishery in the region of the Pacific island nations. Because of the large number of individual nations through whose waters the tuna pass, the even larger number of distant-water and resource-adjacent fishing nations whose fleets exploit the tuna, and the complex intermingling of migrating tuna stocks, the problems permit no simple solution. The analysis presented here points to the possibility of defining an area comprising the EEZs of a number of adjacent Pacific island nations, in which their common fisheries’ interests can be identified and supported. It would then be feasible to establish a joint-management regime that would be responsible for management of the concentrations of tuna stocks in this area.
