Because PICT reporting coverage expanded over the decade, trends should be read as the direction of travel rather than strict like-for-like comparisons.
Indicative synthesis of the decade's progress against the ten Roadmap outcome areas, grouped under the three goals. Cumulative 2015–2025 record; individual annual cards rate each outcome separately.
From the 2015 endorsement of the Roadmap and A New Song to the 2026 transition toward a new regional policy, the decade followed a deliberate arc — building the commitments, the single reporting mechanism, and the community-led approach that underpin sustainable coastal fisheries.
The decade built the institutional foundations — the gaps that remained were as much about money and measurement as action. The new Regional Fisheries Strategy 2026–2035 responds directly to each, anchored by sustainable financing as the critical enabler.
Policy commitments translate into measurable outcomes only when backed by predictable, recurrent and long-term financing that strengthens institutions, supports empowered communities, and enables evidence-informed decisions.
Benefit-sharing and decision-making for women, youth and people with disabilities went unmeasured.
Response: People-centred approach with GESI as a cross-cutting priority; commits to sex-, age- and economic-status-disaggregated data and income parity.
Legislation and MCS&E existed on paper, but the region could rarely show whether they worked.
Response: Dedicated Compliance & Enforcement strategy introduces Community Authorised Officers, voluntary-compliance outreach, MCS&E with clear offences and deterrent penalties.
Invertebrates remained overfished; ~48% of reefs threatened; most stock status still incompletely measured.
Response: Goal 1 targets stocks within sustainable limits, backed by standardised long-term data systems combining traditional knowledge and science.
Climate change was not adequately integrated into coastal fisheries indicators or planning.
Response: Climate is now both a standalone Goal 4 and a cross-cutting priority, integrating climate and disaster risk into planning.
User rights defined in law in 19 PICTs, but community awareness and active local management remained unmeasured.
Response: Pacific CBFM Framework 2021–2030 scales effective CBFM and legally empowers communities to lead CBFM.
Coastal data were fragmented, costly and slow, limiting timely evidence for management.
Response: Modernises data with mobile apps and AI (with data-sovereignty safeguards) and standardised long-term systems; HoF18 backed e-reporting.
The Coastal Fishery Report Card has been published annually since 2015. It tracks Pacific coastal fisheries against the Regional Roadmap for Sustainable Pacific Fisheries and A New Song for Coastal Fisheries, with year-on-year changes in user-rights coverage, household participation, gender, livelihoods and food security. 2026 brings the 10-year synthesis report as the Roadmap era closes.
The decade synthesis: institutional foundations built, but harder outcomes (enforcement, equity, sustainable financing, measurable resource recovery) remain. Includes scorecard against all ten Roadmap outcome areas, the journey timeline 2015 → 2026, the unfinished agenda, and what the 2026–2035 Strategy responds to.
Annual edition under the refreshed indicator framework — Goal 1 Empowerment, Goal 2 Resilience, Goal 3 Livelihoods. Coastal share of national fisheries budgets up from 36% (2017) to 46% (2025); 37% of senior fisheries managers are women.
2024 edition under the indicator framework endorsed by RFMM4 (2023), tracking Goal 1 Empowerment, Goal 2 Resilience and Goal 3 Livelihoods & food security across PICTs.
User rights defined in 15 PICTs; 18 PICTs reporting per-capita fishery values, with US$43 per fishing household across 15 PICTs.
Pre-2023 baseline edition; reporting against original Roadmap indicator set.
Pacific Framework for Action on Scaling up CBFM adopted as the principal mechanism for community-led coastal fisheries management.
Ministers endorsed a mechanism to increase the engagement of non-state actors; CEAFM → CBFM framing shift.
Continued reporting under the single Roadmap + New Song mechanism.
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↓ Download PDFRoadmap and New Song aligned through a single Report Card; first quantitative reporting across a limited number of PICTs.
↓ Download PDFFirst Coastal Fishery Report Card established a baseline against key Roadmap indicators.
↓ Download PDFPacific Leaders endorsed the Roadmap and New Song; SDG 14 adopted globally.
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