Support for SPC’s Tuna Tagging and Biological Sampling Program

Client: The Pacific Community
Duration: 2021 –
Yellowfin tuna

MRAG Asia Pacific provides support to SPC in the implementation of it’s tuna tagging and biological sampling programs in the WCPO.  This includes:

  • Coordinating tag recovery services in ports and processing facilities where WCPO tuna are landed;
  • Coordinating tag seeding and traceability experiments by observers in the WCPO;
  • Providing biological sampling services in ports and processing facilities where WCPO tuna are landed;
  • Coordinating biological sampling by observers and port samplers in the WCPO;
  • Assisting SPC with tag recovery and biological sample promotion; and
  • Data transfer and reporting services.