Tuna stabilisation fund: Government silent on missing millions

Fishery man­agement is a science, not a game of trial and error, and certainly not a business to be overseen by the ignorant lackeys leading the ill-informed. I ts fragility is best understood by those that harvest the oceans, no less Fiji's tuna industry, that is now no more.

Earlier this month, SunBiz launched a campaign highlight­ing the errs and ire that mire an industry now on the brink of col­lapsing, namely tuna.

Its slow demise started nine years ago when the heavyweights buckled whilst the government at the time turned a blind eye. Such complacency on the part of the government has returned to bite the hand that fed it, as the industry slowly stirs as a dragon from slumber.

Questions sent to the Finance and Fisheries ministries were left unanswered more than a week before this edition went to print.