Eight Pacific countries created a revolutionary system that brings in $500m a year and prevents the overfishing that blights other regions

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It has been described as “the most remarkable achievement of the Pacific island countries in the last 50 years”.

In 1982, eight, mostly minuscule Pacific island countries in whose waters much of the world’s skipjack tuna was caught got together and decided to do something to get a share of the profits, of which they received precisely nothing.

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Source: The Guardian