Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency

The Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is an intergovernmental agency established in 1979 to facilitate regional co-operation and co-ordination on fisheries policies between its member states in order to achieve conservation and optimum utilisation of living marine resources, in particular highly migratory fish stocks, for the benefit of the peoples of the region, in particular the developing countries. The FFA Secretariat is located in Honiara, Solomon Islands. FFA is governed by its 17 members through the Forum Fisheries Committee (FFC) and is part of the Pacific regional institutional architecture through the Council of Regional Organisations in the Pacific (CROP). The agency operates the Regional Fisheries Surveillance Centre, headquartered in the Solomon Islands. It annually runs an Operation Kurukuru—a joint effort to board and inspect suspicious fishing vessels.