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The Editor, Fiji Times, 21 May 2008 With reference to the article “Fiji Fish cuts costs” (May 21st, 2008), it is true that there is a considerable disparity between the operating costs of the domestic fishing fleet and the foreign fleet using the port of Suva as a base.

Solander makes use of Orbmap from Geoeye to identify possible areas of fish concentration.

Whale depredation (removal of fish from fishing gear) by toothed whales is an increasingly significant issue effecting the Fijian long line fishery. Whale depredation has the potential to make the long line fishing an economically unsustainable activity within the Fijian zone. On a individual vessel trip level it is already having this effect (refer example). […]