A short history of industrial fishing in the Pacific islands
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This short history explores the development of industrial fishing in the 22 countries and territories in the central and western Pacific Ocean. It traces the first substantive industrial fishing which was carried out by the Japanese in the 1920s and 1930s to the development of sashimi freezer longlining by the Japanese and tuna purse-seining by the Americans. Important recent developments in the Pacific islands include the entry of tuna vessels from China into the fishery and the developme nt of domestic longlining in most countries. Besides industrial tuna fishing, which occurs in the waters of all Pacific island countries, the only other significant form of industrial fishing in the Pacific islands region is shrimp trawling in Papua New Guinea. This document concludes with some important lessons learned, namely that government-owned tuna fishing companies are rarely successful and that most industrial-scale opportunities for the foreseeable future are likely to be tun a-related.