Pacific islands nations including those who are members of the Parties of the Nauru Agreement (PNA) have accused an European Member of Parliament of deliberately misrepresenting and misinterpreting data that relates to the status of the Pacific’s lucrative tuna resources.
Documents obtained by Islands Business magazine show that PNA fishery and trade officials particularly are extremely displeased with the way EU MP Ms. Carmen Fraga Estévez wrote the explanatory notes to her motion to establish a “Pacific strategy” for EU influence in our region. Her motion would undergo its 3rd and most probably final reading in the EU Parliament during the 2nd week of September.
MP Estévez is from Spain, the major player in global tuna fisheries. PNA officials say her assertion that attempts by Pacific islands nations to reduce tuna fishing in their waters by 30 percent had been a failure, was a “total non truth.”
