The Pacific Islands Forum's

Forum Fisheries Agency The Forum Fisheries Agency is an organization run by the Pacific Islands Forum. It operates the Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre, headquartered in the Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major i ...

maintains a Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre in Honiara,

Solomon Islands Solomon Islands is an island country consisting of six major islands and over 900 smaller islands in Oceania, to the east of Papua New Guinea and north-west of Vanuatu. It has a land area of , and a population of approx. 700,000. Its capit ...

. In 1982, the

United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), also called the Law of the Sea Convention or the Law of the Sea Treaty, is an international agreement that establishes a legal framework for all marine and maritime activities. , 167 c ...

gave all maritime nations, including the smaller

Pacific Ocean The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the contin ...

nations, 200-nautical miles Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ). Monitoring their EEZs is a challenge for some of the smaller nations, where their maritime zones dwarf their landmass, making cooperation essential. Member nations second officials to work at the Centre. Since 2005 the Centre has coordinated an annual Operation Kurukuru, where member nations board and inspect suspicious fishing vessels. In recent years larger nations, like Australia and

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, have allocated aerial surveillance assets to fisheries monitoring.

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