Recent sea🐢monitor's refresher training by @WWF-Pacific & @uspmarine1 before deployment to collect turtle nesting data in the coming weeks to add to the knowledge/research on community based sea turtle management here in 🇫🇯! Possible through @wwf_uk funding & support! 🌊🌏
Supporting our friends at SeaQuest train their majority female fishing crew on #traceability of every fish they catch.
SeaQuest with assistance from @TunaFFA are the first in the #Pacific to have a majority female crew onboard a longline fishing vessel going out to sea.
In a world-first, an all female deck crew +First Officer, Engineer + Bosun on a tuna longliner set off today on their maiden voyage. An FFA and SeaQuest collab.
At Commonwealth #ConnectivityAgenda Cluster Week, the Supply Side Cluster focused on how to integrate #technology to boost #agriculture#fisheries, create resilient supply chains & explore new farming techniques and #Agritech to ensure a sustainable post-Covid economic recovery.
Traceable Foods
Concerned about what's in that kava you're drinking? 🤔
Want to know that your kava is 100% from where it says it is and wasn't mixed with anything else?
Want to know that you're drinking kava grown on farms that don't use chemicals - fertilisers or pesticides?
Beautiful day in the west 😎
Started the day surveying schools in Namatakula, Korolevu, Korotogo, Kavanagasau, Yadua😀
We're in the west this week surveying schools & urban locations for a USC/FAO project to gather evidence to understand the obesity & NCD problems in Fiji
Honourable Semi Koroilavesau officially opened the Kaybees tilapia hatchery in Nakasi this morning. Mr Koroilavesau congratulated Kaybee Farms on the initiative which will immediately see more farmers in the vicinity benefitting from the supply of tilapia fingerlings.
🇫🇯#Fiji’s Minister for #Fisheries, Honourable Semi Koroilavesau officially opened the Kaybees male-fish-only tilapia hatchery in Nakasi this morning, we will immediately see more farmers in the vicinity benefitting from the supply of tilapia fingerlings.
https://t.co/JkSxlnNLk4
Ministry of Agriculture Permanent Secretary Ritesh Dass dropped in to talk about agriculture #data, apps, and information systems.
Everything we happen to have deep experience in 😀
We've been working towards a data-driven and tech-enabled #fisheries and #agriculture sector.
Following our landmark partnership agreement to enter the Chinese market with #PuMate, we have signed an MOU with #YuanLongYato to explore the marketing of our products within the region.
#teamFiji Come visit us at the Western Agriculture Show in Nadi😎
Learn about our one-stop-shop farmer app, TraSeable Farms.
Get it from Google Play today - https://t.co/0DM2vSQl7o
Come check us out at the Central Agriculture Show in Syria Park, Nausori. We have a giveaway promotion for all our app users happening right now so be sure to drop by our stall for more info😃
#traseablefarms
Tomorrow, Martin Purves, @1by1tuna, is going to speak at the @myinfofish Tuna 2021 Virtual Conference about sustainable one-by-one tuna fishing amidst COVID-19. Please tune in! Register here: https://t.co/ywfrvgBAYz
BlockChain technology in the fisheries industry among a line up of speakers delivering valuable insights on production, markets/trade, Market access, sustainability and innovation/artificial intelligence.
Excited to be part of the #INFOFISH TUNA 2021 VIRTUAL PRELUDE where the likes of Fijian Ambassador @ThomsonFiji, the UN secretary General's Special Envoy for the Ocean will be delivering the opening address.
TraSeable founder @KatafonoKen will be presenting on innovations in
Kudos to local operators like Sea Quest and Sealand processors who continue to commit to transparency and traceability of their catch. All while keeping people employed in these trying times.
#seafoodtraceability