External Meetings

Meetings attended by SPRFMO Secretariat staff and officials during 2025:

Pan-Pacific Fisheries Compliance Network (PPFCN): The PPFCN is an informal group of RFMO Compliance Officers supported logistically by the International Monitoring, Control, Surveillance (IMCS) Network that was established in 2020 to help foster better networking between RFMO colleagues in the Pacific. The group convenes virtually for ~90 minute sessions several times per year for general discussion on topics of mutual interest. There is also opportunity for smaller group discussions and exchange on topics of specific interest. The Compliance Manager is the principal SPRFMO participant and is supported by the Data Manager. The 2025 virtual meetings of the PPFCN were held on the 06 March. The first face-to-face meeting of the group is planned for 13 June following a TCN meeting (funded through the IMCS Network).

Honiara Summit Iumi tugeda delivering on SDG 14.4: Achieving Sustainable Fisheries: (Honiara, Solomon Islands; 24-27 February 2025). The Executive Secretary was invited to this meeting and participated as a panelist providing a Regional perspective on the role of Regional Fisheries bodies in supporting implementation of SDG14.4. He shared examples from SPRFMO of collaborative regional solutions to complex challenges. The 2025 Honiara Summit focused on meaningful action and innovation towards achieving SDG14: Life Below Water with a dedicated focus on the conservation and sustainable use of oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development. The Summit was jointly hosted by the Government of Solomon Islands and the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) in close collaboration with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization of the (FAO) and the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Ambassador Peter Thompson and was convened in part to inform UNOC3. While the meeting was global by design, it had a particular focus on fishery stocks from the Pacific Ocean, a region that provides 58% of all global marine catches (2022 data).

For information about the external meetings attended by staff and officials in previous years, please check the list below: