A new start for Papua New Guinea's tuna fishery

Abstract

Papua New Guinea’s tuna industry closed down at the end of 1981 because of poor world prices for tuna, and because of reorganisation by the companies operating the fishery in Papua New Guinea. The com­panies involved were subsidiaries of Japanese, American and Australian com­panies. All were foreign-owned. For a full explanation of the closure see HARVEST Volume 8, No. 3, pp. 110-116.