4/4
Healthy tuna stocks
All four main WCPO stocks biologically healthy — none overfished, none experiencing overfishing.
View evidenceStrengthening
Pacific Fisheries
Through Evidence
Monitoring, evaluating and communicating results of FAME's work across 22 Pacific Island Countries and Territories — from tuna science to coastal aquaculture.
Tuna Stock Status · SPC 2025
Healthy
Bigeye
0%
overfishing probability
2025
Skipjack
0%
overfishing probability
2025
Yellowfin
0%
overfishing probability
2023
Albacore
0%
overfishing probability
2024
All 4 targeted tuna species are biologically healthy — none overfished nor experiencing overfishing. WCPO is one of only two ocean regions globally with all stocks "in the green."
«Majuro» Plot — Stock Status
Source: Tuna Fishery Report Card 2025 · FFA, SPC
Headline Results 2025
Evidence at the regional scale
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4,991 people
Training reach since 2016
Across 22 PICTs & territories; 11,977 total participations and 880 trainings delivered.
Open Training Dashboard95%
Business Plan delivery
2025 budget execution across 47 active grants, 7 strategic objectives and €92M in new partnerships.
Open Results Dashboard28%
Coastal household participation
Median across 15 PICTs participate in fishing; 9% rely on fisheries as their main income.
View evidenceLive Results Dashboard
Data-Driven Results at a Glance
Real-time views of FAME’s training reach, portfolio composition, and Key Outcome Indicators across the Pacific region.
11,977
Training participations
6,631
Unique participants
32%
Women in training
450
FAME results reported
Training modalitiesSince 2016
Portfolio composition47 grants
Key Outcome Indicatorsvs. Targets
Training participations 2016–2025Annual trend
Gender splitParticipations
Top 10 countries reachedBy participations
Insights & Analysis
Deep dive into the evidence
Four new analytical views into the FAME results portfolio — from headline synthesis down to every individual result reported between 2018 and 2025.
8-year synthesis
Results Analysis 2018–2025
Five key messages, a 15-theme prevalence heatmap, and year-by-year highlights distilled from 450 results.
- Records
- 450
- Themes
- 15
Strategic frameworks
By BP Objectives, KFAs, SDGs
How the 450 results map across the FAME Business Plan 2022–2027 objectives, SPC KFAs, Pathways, Flagships and SDG contributions.
- BP objectives
- 7
- SDGs
- 13
Full register
Browse all 450 results
Search and filter every individual FAME result reported 2018–2025. Year, type, theme, KFA, SDG, Pathway and PICT filters with full text search.
- Records
- 450
- Filters
- 6+
Annual archive
Annual Results 2018–2025
Eight years of FAME results reporting in card form — each year linked to its corresponding Tuna and Coastal report cards.
- Years
- 8
- Report cards
- 21
Impact Stories
Results from the Pacific
Twelve performance narratives drawn directly from FAME programmes — from tuna data systems and CKMR sampling to coastal aquaculture, climate finance and youth-led storytelling.
20countries on Tufman 2
Data & systems
No more rusty servers: world-class tuna data software
Eight years to replace localised Microsoft Access servers with a single, secure, web-based tuna database now used across 18 PICTs plus the Philippines and Vietnam.
2024 · 20 countriesRead story
1,631%growth in CKMR samples
Tuna science
Scaling Close-Kin Mark Recapture across the Pacific
Genetic sampling replaces traditional tags. In two years, SPC scaled the sampling effort more than sixteen-fold — and identified the first South Pacific albacore kin-pairs.
2025 · 10 PICTs + NZ + USARead story
$107.4MGCF Regional Tuna Programme
Climate
Adapting Pacific fisheries to climate change
FAME's science is becoming the credibility ticket for Pacific nations seeking climate finance — anchored by a landmark US$107.4M GCF investment.
2025 · All 22 PICTsRead story
419fisheries leaders trained
Capacity & leadership
Building Pacific fisheries leadership
The Pacific Fisheries Leadership Programme closed Phase 1 over-target — and 67% of those promoted into senior roles were women.
2024 · 17 PICTsRead story
167Certificate IV graduates
Capacity & leadership
Professional compliance & enforcement for coastal fisheries
A six-month vocational qualification has become the backbone of a Pacific compliance workforce — 96% of graduates report improved work performance.
2024 · 11 PICTsRead story
822trained in GESI
Gender & inclusion
Empowering change: lessons from PEUMP's GESI journey
Eight years of PEUMP made SPC a regional leader on gender and fisheries — handbooks, country analyses, training, and now a vodcast.
2025 · 5 PICTsRead story
488fishers consulted
Gender & inclusion
Inclusive research: Kiribati's gender & fisheries analysis
Hands-on capacity building takes GESI from training room to ministerial agenda — 246 women and 242 men consulted across 10 communities.
2024 · KiribatiRead story
22PICTs covered
Fisheries economics
Fisheries in Pacific economies: Benefish 4
The first Benefish to factor in COVID-19 and climate change — and the first co-authored by a Pacific marine science graduate.
2023 · All 22 PICTsRead story
500K+views — Guardians of the Pacific
Community & culture
Kaitiakitanga: community ambassadors champion sustainable fishing
Pacific value of guardianship expressed through radio podcasts, the most viral SPC video series ever, and a structured channel for community voices.
2022 · Pacific-wideRead story
150boats with sea safety gear
Community & culture
Pohnpei FADs and sea safety — community livelihoods
Safety equipment, painted hulls and anchored FADs are saving lives in FSM — with 8 stranded drifting FADs removed from coral reefs.
2024 · Pohnpei, FSMRead story
10 yrto WCPFC adoption
Tuna science
WCPFC adopts harvest strategy for skipjack tuna
Ten years of patient regional work culminated in a landmark for the world's largest tuna fishery — adopted at Da Nang in 2022.
2022 · WCPFC regionRead story
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