How powerless pacific small countries saved tuna from powerful powers

Nauru, Marshall, Micronesia, Solomon, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, Palau. The smart tuna diplomacy of eight small island nations in the Midwestern Pacific was found to have saved their economies and prevented overfishing of tuna. The success of the fishing agreement signed by the PNA (Parties to the Nauru Agreement), a regional cooperation organization with eight island nations, has become a model showing how weak countries can successfully diplomatic relations from the powers. On the 6th (local time), foreign affairs magazine Foreign Policy reported. The eight island nations are distributed in the waters where most of the world's tuna fishing is done. From Hawaii and the Philippines to the coast of Australia, the Pacific Ocean, 1.5 times the total area of the United States, is under the control of the PNA. Ten years ago, tuna fees received by the PNA from large deep-sea fishing vessels in the world's powers were only 2.5% of the total catch. This is because ships ...