Francisco Blaha

Independent Fisheries Adviser

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Come on board: longlining for Tuna in Fiji /February 17, 2014 by Francisco Blaha

A small video by SPC (Secretariat of the Pacific Community) Oceanic Fisheries Programme

Longline tuna fishing in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean
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My name in a Oxford University Press Handbook... of all places
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Good data, awkward numbers: the WCPFC 2025 MCS reporting and how far we still are on high seas transhipment
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Advancing Electronic Monitoring in Taiwan’s Distant Water Longline Fisheries
about 4 days ago
Lack of capacity is not a side issue; it is the issue
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Back to FAO Rome, with a different hat
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Tagging on a borrowed boat
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SC22 in Apia: what the Scientific Committee actually decided
about 2 weeks ago
The due diligence that should happen before a transhipment at sea, and doesn't
about 2 weeks ago
The next generation reads the SW Atlantic fishing paralysis better than the present one
about 3 weeks ago
What Ai.Fish has built, and why it matters for fishers
about 3 weeks ago
What tuna tell us about the world's mercury levels
about 4 weeks ago
How much longline gear are we actually leaving in the WCPO?
about a month ago
Effort creep in the WCPO purse seine fishery: the 2026 update
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The Western and Central Pacific tuna fishery in 2025
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Joseph Conrad on the minds of the men I fished with
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7,288 longliners, and the ones we can't count
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The Snapper That Never Makes to the stock assessment
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Can EM Monitor labour rights on board?
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Should Fisheries Observers Ever Be Labour Rights Monitors Too?
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Progress in Advancing Decent Work in Marine Fisheries — Part 2: What's Actually Working
about a month ago

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