Tuna catch being offloaded from a longline fishing boat in Majuro Marshall Islands for export to international sashimi markets. November 18, 2014. Photo: AFP PHOTO / Hilary HOSIA
Pacific leaders are meeting in Rarotonga next week to discuss fishing rules in the world's largest tuna fishery.
Twenty-six member countries and participating territories of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, which is also called the Tuna commission, are custodians of the multi-billion-dollar Pacific tuna fishery.
RNZ Pacific's Caleb Fotheringham has more.