6 April 2007
Solomon Islands A Solomon Islands government delegation is in PNG country to learn more about the developments that have taken place in the fishing industry.
The group headed by finance and treasury minister Gordon Darcy arrived for talks with the Papua New Guinea Government and fishing companies.
The delegation will travel to Madang and Wewak in the next two days and then to Port Moresby for talks with Fisheries Minister Ben Semri and officials from the National Fisheries Authority.
While in Lae, the team will visit the International Food Corporation and Frabelle (PNG) Ltd tuna canning and loining processing plant.
Tomorrow, the team will visit the RD Tuna cannery in Madang and then travel to East Sepik on Thursday to visit the fish processing activities in Wewak.
“The purpose of the visit is to see the various developments with regards to tuna and fisheries industries in the country which Solomon Islands is interested to pursue for its own people,†Mr. Bata’anisia said.
The Solomon Islands visit comes close on the heels of another high level visit from the members of the Nauru agreement.
The member countries are looking closely at PNG to learn about how it has managed to go into downstream processing of its tuna resources.
