The problems and countermeasures on the tuna purse seine fishery in WCPCO

The tuna purse seine mainly works in the WCPCO (Western and Central Pacific Ocean). Although beginning a little later, some Chinese fishery corporations have developed to a certain extent and benefited a lot from tuna purse seine fishery. Meanwhile, the protection and management of the Pacific Islands Countries (PICs) are more and more strict. As Chinese tuna ships are second hand and introduced from foreign, inevitably, many problems in the maintenance and the management of personnel and fishing vessels come forth. Therefore, it is urgent and necessary to solve them to improve the production and management of the fishery corporations. This paper analyzes these problems and tries to find the ways to solve. These suggestions are expected to bring profit and salutary to the whole China's tuna purse seining.