The Pacific Community (SPC) in New Caledonia is advertising for a Principal Fisheries Scientist (Coastal & Nearshore).

Your office will be 80 metres from this beach, and your extended workplace will be the entire insular western and central tropical Pacific.

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The University of the South Pacific (Laucala Bay campus in Fiji), is looking for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer covering marine resource governance, marine spatial planning, and fisheries management focussed on the Pacific Island context.
recruitment.usp.ac.fj/job/53269c01...

The 2025 Pacific Community (SPC) Fisheries Meeting was in Hobart, Tasmania this month. Coming through strongly was the desire by Pacific Islands for SPC to find and put more resources into the science needed for effective management of small-scale coastal fisheries. www.spc.int/digitallibra...

The Old Peacock on Elland Road, Leeds
www.theoldpeacock.co.uk

Note: not all fish species are fished. Just over 1000 fish species are taken by artisanal fisheries in the Pacific Islands region, and only about 100 of these species are marketed. There are around 33,000 species of fish. Here's a handy estimate of relative biomass (for source see base of diagram)

Protect 50% of the high seas and your protect 30% of the entire ocean, without losing significant production potential*
Which suggests to me that 30x30 will be useless unless backed up by 100% effective management.

*(tuna migrate)
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Last time I looked, this was a disputed area, bordered on two sides by Japanese waters and the other two sides by waters of China and Taiwan respectively

I didn't see it, but I'm posting anyway. I used to find reading this a good way to unwind after a difficult day at work.

This is my proposal for Scotland's new maritime boundary. The Brythons can have the UK bit of the Irish Sea and the Channel.

Heading into the 21st WCPFC meeting in Fiji next week with the Eastern Pacific now joining the Western and Central Pacific as having all 4 sub/tropical tuna species in the green. Even Pacific Bluefin Tuna is looking better, biomass recovered to over 20% of unfished
meetings.wcpfc.int/node/24695

Shark being eaten by a banana
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Hannah Gilchrist just penned a "Starter pack for octopus monitoring: An overview of octopus biology, ecology and measurement protocols for fisheries management", with Indah Rufiati and Epeli Loganimoce.

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I showed this to a 4-year old. Sharks holding ice creams always win. Can't imagine why.

Bedraggled memento of my first year as a fisheries officer, rescued from a wardrobe clearout yesterday after a water pipe burst. We had a giant clam science workshop on Naigani Island. I didn't dare wear this in Suva.

An awkward social interaction

This glimpse of the sea from the bottom of our garden always cheers me up - reminds me of childhood, when a view like this was an exceptionally rare and exciting event.

New paper describing the AI-backed fisheries monitoring tool that the Pacific Community (SPC) and partners have been working on over the last 5+ years, helping to boost coastal fisheries science and management in the Pacific Islands
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency jobs in Honiara:
Legal Counsel
Finance Manager
MCS Advisor Strategic Analysis
Legal Advisor (Prosecution)
Climate Change Advisor
Training Advisor
MCS Analysts (2 positions)
Air Surveillance Planning Officer
MERLA Specialist
www.ffa.int/work-with-us...

3 PhDs - “Water security for locally relocated coastal communities in the Western Pacific region” funded by ACIAR. University of the Sunshine Coast-led research in Fiji and Vanuatu
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