Some Pacific Tuna stocks critically low

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Updated August 21, 2009 19:33:57

The Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission has finished its two week meeting in Port Vila. Over the past fortnight its been looking at some of the measures it has been testing to try and control the amount of Tuna caught within the 10 million square kilometres it has responsibility for monitoring and managing. But with more and more fishing boats heading to the Pacific, it's finding some species are close to being exploited at unsustainable levels.

Presenter: Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney
Speakers: Executive Director of the Western and Central Fisheries Commission, Andrew Wright and Victorio Uherbelau Palau's Presidential Assistant on International Affairs

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