Fiji, Oct. 9 -- Solomon Islands National University (SINU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Transform Aqorau says Pacific Island States must continue to assert leadership in the global governance of tuna fisheries to protect their sovereignty, economy, and identity.

Speaking at the International Symposium on the Science of Pacific Tunas and Tuna Fisheries in Shanghai this week, Professor Aqorau said Pacific nations are "custodians of one of the planet's largest and most biologically rich marine domains," and that tuna governance lies at the core of their survival and sovereignty.

"The Pacific Island States are custodians of one of the planet's largest and most biologically rich marine domains. Nowhere is this stewardship more consequential tha...